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What would design the algorithm?

> Is it true that a human would write a better book in a month than a well-designed algorithm?

The "well designed" plays a big role in this sentence. At some point you're just writing the book with a different "pen".

Humans can't eat just anything though, and there's a tremendous amount of energy embodied in human food, including growing, storing, transporting and cookihg it.

And is also true for computers in different ways. Human food comes included in the natural Environment, electricity requires some degree of commercial mining.

If you want to go with imaginary algorithms that don’t exist yet (or possibly ever) sure such an imaginary computer or system could do it more efficiently.