Comment by Lipdorn_1 on The Wonder of Evolution · 2012-10-31T15:14:10.714Z · LW · GW

Think about it. Humans are the result of an evolutionary algorithm. Therefore it could be argued that a human being designing something is simply the original evolutionary algorithm finding a clever "short-cut".

Once humans create computers that self replicate and optimize and improve themselves...we would have simply become a milestone, a stepping point if you will, towards the the ultimate replicator. So yes, I could argue that it was evolution that built my computer.