Comment by toufiqbarhamov

I am seriously interested in understanding why a lot of people have no issue accepting the idea of humans evolving from simple immaterial matter into biological beings and all the way up to our current reality but have a hard time believing that can be done via computers.

You seem to be missing a key ingredient: billions of years and endless branching iterations with the totality of all non-sequestered resources available. Even if you scale that to account for the more rapid iteration theoretically possible with machines, it doesn’t paint a rosy picture for any of our lifetimes.

Plus, in organisms the software and hardware are both subject to mutation, and exist in the context of a global system of competition for resources. That only tangentially resembles work done on AGI, and only in the software component. We can only design and build hardware so quickly, and that adds more time. I’m not hearing pushback against the possibilitY of AGI, just singularity “any day now” claims that seem mostly calibrated to sell books and seminars.