We are probably the only universal problem solving biological life form on this planet right now (but not in the future), and Earth has possibly the only biological life in the visible universe, but it seems improbable that we are the only universal problem solving machines.
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Replying to @mere_mortise
It is a search algorithm that obviously led to the genesis of at least one, but that took so long that it is perhaps not guaranteed to converge?
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Replying to @Plinz @mere_mortise
Basically, evolution tends to get stuck in local optima where some intellectually dead ended apex predator eats all the proto intelligent upstart species. Since we have found no fossilized technology, that must have happened for Billions of years!
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Replying to @Plinz @mere_mortise
changes in the environment (asteroids, volcanic eruptions, ice-ages) and varying competition continuously unlock local optima
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True! But the whole algorithm's runtime is limited to a few Bn years, and that is the same order of magnitude it empirically took to converge to its first solution.
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