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Comment by sellyme

5 years ago

> I forgot the law's name but the said law states that "a machine of a certain complexity cannot build a machine more complex than itself"

Isn't this disproved by the evolution of reproductive organisms? That's not necessarily more complex of course, but it's pretty obvious that over a large enough time scale successive machines can become more complex.

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