I understand your point, and do think is valid to some extent, but keep in mind hundreds of AI experts and thousands of cores for half a century still fall seve

I understand your point, and do think is valid to some extent, but keep in mind hundreds of AI experts and thousands of cores for half a century still fall several orders of magnitude short of an entire universe running natural selection for 14 billion years. it could really be simple, given an absurd amount of resources... our replication process is actually much harder because we're trying to do it in a fraction of the time and "cost".