About whether AGI is inevitable and whether skeptics just keep moving the goalposts.
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About whether AGI is inevitable and whether skeptics just keep moving the goalposts.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
There is another term for moving the goalposts: ruling out a hypothesis. Science is, especially in the Popperian sense, all about moving the goalposts.
One plausible hypothesis is that fixed neural networks cannot be general intelligences, because their capabilities are permanently limited by what they currently are. A general intelligence needs the ability to learn from experience. Training and inference should not be separate activities, but our current hardware is not suited for that.