[whimsicalism]

> The main issue is that evolution is both massively parallel and had plenty of runtime to get to human level intelligence.

How many entities are we talking about for substantial evolution? I know that there have been 100 billion "humans" (not that it's so clear-cut) alive, so guessing this is on the order of ~trillions of entities to simulate some evolution for (but maybe I'm really underestimating the early tail of tons and tons of microorganisms and small short-lived life that got us to this point).

Is the bandwidth of evolution that much larger than what we could possible simulate with computation, especially for a much simpler world/task than "generally survive"?

[lelandbatey]

Given that a single teaspoon of soil probably has about a billion bacterial organisms in it, I suspect you're a couple orders of magnitude short.