If you construct a hypothetical wherein there is obviously no space for evolutionary dynamics, then yes, evolutionary dynamics are unlikely to play a big role.
The case I was thinking of (which would likely be part of the research process towards ‘brains in vats’—essentially a prerequisit) is larger and larger collectives of designed organisms, forming tissues etc.
It may be possible to design a functioning brain in a vat from the ground up with no evolution, but I imagine that
a) you would get there faster verifying hypotheses with in vitro experiments
b) by the time you got to brains-in-vats, you would be able to make lots of other, smaller scale designed organisms that could do interesting, useful things as large assemblies
And since you have to pay a high price for error correction, the group that is more willing to gamble with evolutionary dynamics will likely have MVOs ready to deploy sooner that the one that insists on stripping all the evolutionary dynamics out of their setup.
If you construct a hypothetical wherein there is obviously no space for evolutionary dynamics, then yes, evolutionary dynamics are unlikely to play a big role.
The case I was thinking of (which would likely be part of the research process towards ‘brains in vats’—essentially a prerequisit) is larger and larger collectives of designed organisms, forming tissues etc.
It may be possible to design a functioning brain in a vat from the ground up with no evolution, but I imagine that
a) you would get there faster verifying hypotheses with in vitro experiments
b) by the time you got to brains-in-vats, you would be able to make lots of other, smaller scale designed organisms that could do interesting, useful things as large assemblies
And since you have to pay a high price for error correction, the group that is more willing to gamble with evolutionary dynamics will likely have MVOs ready to deploy sooner that the one that insists on stripping all the evolutionary dynamics out of their setup.