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> What’s with fascination with agi/superintelligence

We had relative strength, we needed more strength, we built cranes;

there was something like intelligence, we needed more intelligence, we sought to fill the need;

we were rightly fascinated with intelligence, we studied intelligence itself, we wanted to build it...

And then somebody built things that looked like intelligence, and very rightly some said "Oh, now we have to get to the Real Thing with urgency".