- "how do you expect to do better than evolution" Because our goal is aligned with our actual problem (survival of individual human beings), as opposed to the

- "how do you expect to do better than evolution" Because our goal is aligned with our actual problem (survival of individual human beings), as opposed to the merely partially-aligned goal of "statistical survival up to reproduction age"? Natural evolution is an unaligned AI, in a sense: powerful, but not helpful. Eventually humanity will defeat this problem, and we won't even need computational parity with natural evolution to do that. Most of that computation is wasted.