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Only a pantheist would claim that evolution is a personal being, and so it can't "try to" do anything. It is, however, a directed process, serving to favor individuals that can better further the species.
How would you suggest we find the right utility function without using machine learning?
How would you find the right utility function using machine learning? With machine learning you have to have some way of classifying examples as good vs bad. That classifier itself is equivalent to the FAI problem.