Great post! It does seem prima facie infeasible that recapitulating evolution would even be computable. Another thing to consider is that trying to simulate evolution may not yield general intelligence if just run once and it may need to be simulated many times in order to stumble on general intelligence which adds to the amount of computation that may be needed if turns out that coming up with general intelligence is very unlikely.
Great post! It does seem prima facie infeasible that recapitulating evolution would even be computable. Another thing to consider is that trying to simulate evolution may not yield general intelligence if just run once and it may need to be simulated many times in order to stumble on general intelligence which adds to the amount of computation that may be needed if turns out that coming up with general intelligence is very unlikely.