The magic ingredient is time. This is the result of billions of years of iteration, trying quadrillions of quadrillions of different approaches, parallelised ac

The magic ingredient is time. This is the result of billions of years of iteration, trying quadrillions of quadrillions of different approaches, parallelised across a whole planet, with every generation being built only from a successful previous generation. The result is amazing, but the scale of all this compounding is also amazing.