AGI(-16) is a cognitive science / philosophy conference (and not particularly high impact). Similarly, NIPS is not really about neural information processing.
I'm not reading into titles. I watched a lot of the videos. Don't dismiss it on your superficial evaluation of titles or prejudice about the conference.
AGI is in fact a developed field with key insights into general intelligence. You should study it.
I comment a lot on machine learning but I don't actually work in the field actively. I did some research in college.
There aren't many active researchers/experts commenting on HN (better things to do), which is IMO a big issue with the ML-related discussion quality on HN (it's basically 90% futurism/speculation).
AGI is in fact a developed field with key insights into general intelligence. You should study it.