[perihelions]

- "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.

[enthulhusiastic]

Most of the computation is suffering, but not wasted. It still benefits us.

And the computation has to be done even in simulation. Just better to shortcut the suffering.

I think bioengineering is a good goal. I think cyborgs are a bad goal.