[echelon]

> I personally don't think strong GAI is possible

The universe has done it at least one time. And now we can control the gradient descent.

[civilitty]

> And now we can control the gradient descent.

That may be the fatal flaw. The universe had a few billion years and offered only the threat of death. Our reward functions pale in comparison.

[denton-scratch]

> The universe has done it at least one time.

You mean humans? "GAI" means General Artificial Intelligence, and the "artificial" bit is supposed to exclude human intelligence.

[dartos]

If you kept reading the rest of the sentence, OP says effectively “at least not with known methods”

Which imo is true