This is an interesting post and I agree with it. Also, modeling a calculator at the transistor level is a useful analogy.
As for the discussion on "286s or 1995 home computers" these computers seem capable of containing in memory both the DNA description of a simple Bacteria like Pelagibacter ubique (1,308,759 base pairs) as well as simple model of all the atoms in the largest protein that Pelagibacter ubique contains. So this level of computer might be sufficient to bootstrap to a more powerful computer by designing the computational and energy... (read more)
This is an interesting post and I agree with it. Also, modeling a calculator at the transistor level is a useful analogy.
As for the discussion on "286s or 1995 home computers" these computers seem capable of containing in memory both the DNA description of a simple Bacteria like Pelagibacter ubique (1,308,759 base pairs) as well as simple model of all the atoms in the largest protein that Pelagibacter ubique contains. So this level of computer might be sufficient to bootstrap to a more powerful computer by designing the computational and energy... (read more)