The story of computers and artificial intelligence (known as AI) resembles that of flight in air and space. Until recently people dismissed both ideas as impossible - commonly meaning that they couldn't see how to do them, or would be upset if they could.
-Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation
A witty saying proves nothing. --Voltaire
This is just reinforcing what people (on LessWrong) already think about non-narrow AI; you could just as easily have someone say that:
The story of computers and artificial intelligence (known as AI) resembles that of alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone. There have been some resultant areas of research, such as chemistry deriving from alchemy, but the original focus (the philosopher's stone) will never be reached.
I remember reading on LessWrong (though I can't find the link now) about how if fo...
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