UFAI could be constructed by a few people who know what they are doing on today's commodity hardware with only a few years effort.
Any evidence for that particular belief?
What do you think is missing from the implementation strategy outlined in Goertzel's Engineering General Intelligence?
As per a recent comment this thread is meant to voice contrarian opinions, that is anything this community tends not to agree with. Thus I ask you to post your contrarian views and upvote anything you do not agree with based on personal beliefs. Spam and trolling still needs to be downvoted.