I must confess I have a personal vendetta against Yudkowsky and his cult. I studied computer science in college. As an undergrad, I worked as an AI research assistant. I develop software for a living. This is my garden the LessWrong crowd is trampling.
Whenever someone says "AGI" you can mentally substitute "cold fusion." To the best of our knowledge, we have little reason to think such a thing is even possible and plenty of reason to think it isn't.
deleted by creator