AJ2884 on Nostr: Realistically, you're right about an iPhone having a much lower assembly number than ...

Realistically, you're right about an iPhone having a much lower assembly number than a person, but that makes me curious how an iPhone would compare to a bacteria, but to a point you rightfully made, there are incomparably more bacteria than iPhones. Also, while I'm tempted to think of something like a phone as having a high assembly number given the complexities of things like screens and ICs, realistically once you have one pixel and one gate, scaling things up by 1e6 or 1e9 makes manufacturing quite a bit trickier, but doesn't innately increase the assembly number. On the other hand, I suppose that a single bacteria which is made up of a bunch of organelles, each of which is going to be made up of a bunch of specialized molecules is going to have a lot of unique things rather than many copies of a few things, so I suppose it does seem plausible that a bacteria could have a vastly higher assembly number than a phone in addition to its higher copy number.