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Ask HN: How high is the bar for AGI? what problems are "AGI-complete"?
I like Wozniak’s definition: Can you drop it off on a random residential sidewalk, and have it walk into a house and make a cup of coffee?
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2 is overrated, there are 25 approaches to quantum gravity in Wikipedia the problem is not formulating such a theory it is doing the experiment to prove it.

5. never. Cancer is more than one disease, I can imagine it finds a way to cure some cancers but if you think there is a cure for “cancer” you don’t know what cancer is.

7. Emily noether already disproved it.

10. Metal fists?

11. Easy. It won’t die if it fucks up.

12. Will happen with or without AI

16. I was trained as a quantum mechanic and I don’t care.

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