Evolution searches nearby spaces of what already exists with astonishing exhaustiveness. But if there isn’t a chain of viable intermediaries between one form and another, then the second will just not arise, no matter how fit for survival it would be. This isn’t a problem that afflicts an biological engineer, and said engineer also has the example of what evolution has already come up with to work off.
So, massively out-designing evolution ? Sure. That’s not even a hard trick for a singularity mind.
Evolution searches nearby spaces of what already exists with astonishing exhaustiveness. But if there isn’t a chain of viable intermediaries between one form and another, then the second will just not arise, no matter how fit for survival it would be. This isn’t a problem that afflicts an biological engineer, and said engineer also has the example of what evolution has already come up with to work off. So, massively out-designing evolution ? Sure. That’s not even a hard trick for a singularity mind.