I share your concern about jenga! Evolution makes blithely shortsighted errors. We're about as intelligent as we are required to be in order to survive. We're

I share your concern about jenga! Evolution makes blithely shortsighted errors. We're about as intelligent as we are required to be in order to survive. We're stuck at local maxima at every level from the personal to the political and that is a problem. That is why using artificial aids like books for recording memories and genetic splicing is the right thing to do. Biology should not be accepted as Physics. It is alright to cheat and interfere. I will now sound like I'm contradicting myself but I'm not. Evolution has accomplished results with brute force that we do not comprehend. Some of those results appear stupid to us but there exist secret underlying patterns that are not available to our minds. Our instincts contain heaps of responses that we often regard as stupid e.g. blushing, jealousy but they are likely adaptions that helped us survive so we will require an understanding of their function. This is the great truth of conservatism and complex systems. Things are the way they are because reasons. That the proponents of this view can't explain themselves articulately is not relevant. The reasons are real. You are not your frontal cortex. That's just the Speaker in the house of parliament. That's why jenga is a problem. Jenga gives us the FDA. Jenga eventually produces a caste system. The great project is to somehow open a third door nobody has noticed. Let me know if you figure it out! Uncoincidentally I like Patri Friedman's idea of constructing seasteads. I don't want to sound like I'm allergic to work but real change is hard work! It is like everything interesting happens at edges of things.