OK so hear me out

Completely 100% totally wrong in every respect.

No, but that's how lots of things were done. That or malicious intent.

Well if your intent was to explain the origin, then it is classic circular reasoning because the conclusion was included as a precondition, eg, the existence of a self-replicating machine begets self-replicating machines.

If your intent was to explain how a simple self-replicating machine can become a complex one, then you are begging the question. In other words, your precondition is in greater need of support than your conclusion. How did the first self-replicating machine come into existence? In fact, there is no answer for that, despite what some evolutionary biologist has told you. The fruit of a worldview that teaches that time itself is an architect results in the fallacious and magical thinking demonstrated in this thread.

What is circular about that, exactly?

Thoroughly explained here

We're not talking about biology here. Evolutionary learning algorithms are a fairly well proven computer programming technique.

In either case we are not talking about biology. Materialistic origin of life is purely about synthetic organic chemistry: a prebiological state. That is why any answer which relies on an existing biological process is inherently circular.

For what problem domain? Do you understand computability and complexity? A pathetically small subset of functions are computable.

Then why are you bringing it up?
See, this is actually finally addressing the issue. It only took you about a half-dozen posts to get to the actual technological aspects of what this guy is proposing. Next time try starting out with this instead of misusing phrases you've heard before to sound cool.

There are already highly optimised mathematical algorithms for this topic. Fucking AItards.

I brought it up because it is symptomatic with a worldview in which complex information systems arise magically over time.
The OP was silly and of no substance. I'd rather talk about why people think that coherent and complex systems spontaneously appear (they dont).