I love how he completely undermines his own point in the last line of the post: Lesser intelligences cannot create greater intelligences... dumb luck notwi

I love how he completely undermines his own point in the last line of the post: Lesser intelligences cannot create greater intelligences... dumb luck notwithstanding. If "dumb luck" can do it, why can't "smart luck" do it too? You and I are already an existence proof of the fact that it's possible to build "intelligent" systems out of matter. So what's stopping us from actually understanding what it means to be "intelligent" on a theoretical level then solving the resulting engineering problems to implement it in practice? In other words, since "dumb luck" can optimize a fitness function that results in intelligence, why can't that same (or some similar) fitness function be optimized a little less dumbly, like using human intelligence to navigate the through the solution space?