Grant: group selection does happen, but only very slowly. Natural selection works when its units are destroyed, and tribes go extinct pretty rarely compared to individuals.
Merely being poor does not make a selection unit unfit, as far as evolution is concerned. It has to disappear.
I know that random behavior requires choices. The machine IS choosing - but because all choices are equal, the result of "max(actionList)" is implementation-dependent. "Shut down OS" is in that list, too, but "make no choice whatsoever" simply doesn't belong there.
"""it is quite likely that the universe may not be able to support vast orders of magnitude of intelligence"""
Why?