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Comment author: timtyler 12 June 2012 10:00:12AM 1 point [-]

I would suggest working on practical software, such as that which solves for best designs of transistors (gradually generalized), and perhaps for more optimal code for that. The AGI will have to out-foom such software to beat it, and probably won't [...]

A bizarre optimisation problem to make that claim of.