[sarreph]

I often think about how humans manage to build upon previous knowledge, and how much more difficult it gets to add another abstract layer, but the point* you just made about computers designing increasingly complex paradigms really got me thinking/scared!

* > Isn't it only a matter of time before computers are designing and replicating devices that are sufficiently beyond our capability to understand how they even operate? Or synthetic compounds created by computer algorithms that cure disease but we have literally no idea the mechanism of action? Maybe in a very few problem domains today this is already the case.