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by 317070 2347 days ago
Yeah, some people even started giving it a name [0]: Schmidhuber's (local) optimum. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the idea is that as long as Schmidhuber says he did it before, we are probably in the same basin of attraction as we were in the nineties.

The open question is whether AGI is the same as Schmidhuber's optimum, or even lies within Schmidhuber's basin.

[0] Cambridge style debate on the topic at Neurips 2019.