[JumpCrisscross]

> a lack of data is the one thing preventing us from achieving AGI

There is precisely zero evidence for this.

[yura]

More importantly, there's zero evidence for the claim that achieving AGI would be beneficial to mankind.

[JumpCrisscross]

> there's zero evidence for the claim that achieving AGI would be beneficial to mankind

Different argument whose answer is possibly unknowable ex ante. If AGI is on the table it will be built. The upsides are too significant to avoid the prisoner’s dilemma.