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That's not a hope. It's appealing to a magic genie to solve our problems. We really have to get out of the habit of doing that, or we'll never get anything done.
"I hope a magic genie will solve our problems" is a kind of hope, though as I say in the OP, not one I'd want to bet on. For the record, the "maybe an FAI will solve our problems" isn't so much my thought as something I anticipated that some members of the LW community might say in response to this post.
It's only legit if you can exhibit a computation which you are highly confident will solve the problem of consciousness, without being able to solve the problem of consciousness yourself.