[diggan]

> Humans are very capable of looking around themselves and thinking "I can do better than this"

Doesn't this require at least some perspective of what "better than this" means, which you could only know with at least a bit of outside influence in one way or another?

[Jensson]

Every human has feelings and instincts, they answer what "better than this" means.

Yes, even in math and science, those were built on top of our feeling of "better than this" iterated over thousands of years.

[esafak]

Parsimony, explanatory power, and aesthetics. These are things that could be taught to a computer, and I think we will. We had to evolve them too.