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by hateful 815 days ago
The complexity of a object is not just the complexity of its ingredients. It's also the complexity of the factory needed to create that object. Time is a very important factor - and again, not just the time to make an object and the time to make the objects the object is made of, but time time to make the object that makes the object.

I've recently discovered Assembly Theory. There are so many interesting ideas in this interview, I don't know where to start. I think my favorite is: According to complexity: the Earth is the largest place in the universe. The Sun is simpler than a spool of insulated 22-gauge wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI0DJME_D4