It is sorta interesting to wonder about how far we can bootstrap ourselves. We went from trees to moon landings and neural networks, maybe we and our tools can

It is sorta interesting to wonder about how far we can bootstrap ourselves. We went from trees to moon landings and neural networks, maybe we and our tools can rise to the top of the Kardashev scale (barring any cataclysms.) If so, it implies there's a sort of intelligence-completeness, where species can accomplish any physically possible objective. Or maybe we will peter out before achieving practical fusion, quantum gravity or AGI. Either way, "X can't create X" is a silly argument. Humans create humans, there's whole websites dedicated to that.