Have you seen Paul's latest post yet? It seems much more well formed than his previous posts on the subject.

I agree, though it doesn't go as far afield as many of the other posts. It's actually another plausible winning scenario that I forgot about in the recent discussions: implement WBE via AGI (as opposed to normal engineering route, thus winning the WBE race), and then solve the remaining problems from within. Might be possible to implement when the FAI puzzle is not yet solved completely.