I don't see much cause for optimism. Human intelligence is the end result of tens of millions of years of evolution. That software project you hacked on for a f

I don't see much cause for optimism. Human intelligence is the end result of tens of millions of years of evolution. That software project you hacked on for a few months until it worked really well? Now multiply that by about seven orders of magnitude. You simply can't comprehend how much trial and error led us to the state we're in now. To think that we could reverse engineer ourselves in the span of a few centuries always seemed pretty naive to me.