I don't think any other method of knowledge creation is known, other than evolution.
The scientific method doesn't look much like evolution to me. At a simpler level, things like observation and experimentation don't look like it, either.
I went down the rabbit hole of your ensuing discussion and it seems to have broken LW, but didn't look like you were very convinced yet. Thanks for taking one for the team.
Why expect AGIs to be better at thinking than human beings? Is there some argument that human thinking problems are primarily due to hardware constraints? Has anyone here put much thought into parenting/educating AGIs?