[myrmidon]

I personally believe that while interesting, projects like OpenWorm or humanbrainproject are extremely indirect and unpromising regarding AGI (or even for improving our understanding of human thinking in general).

To me, these are like building an instruction set emulator by scanning a SoC and then cobbling together a SPICE simulation of all the individual transistors-- the wrong level of abstraction and unlikely to EVER give decent performance.

People also like to point out that human neurons are diverse and hard to simulate accurately-- yeah sure, but to me that seems completely irrelevant to AGI, in the very same way that physically exact transistor modelling is irrelevant when implementing emulators.