I think you’re probably in a really bad state if you have to lean very much on that with your first AGI system. You want to build the system to not optimize any harder than absolutely necessary, but you also want the system to fail safely if it does optimize a lot harder than you were expecting.
The kind of AGI approach that seems qualitatively like “oh, this could actually work” to me involves more “the system won’t even try to run searches for solutions to problems you don’t want solved” and less “the system tries to find those solutions but fails because of roadblocks you put in the way (e.g., you didn’t give it enough hardware)”.
I think you’re probably in a really bad state if you have to lean very much on that with your first AGI system. You want to build the system to not optimize any harder than absolutely necessary, but you also want the system to fail safely if it does optimize a lot harder than you were expecting.
The kind of AGI approach that seems qualitatively like “oh, this could actually work” to me involves more “the system won’t even try to run searches for solutions to problems you don’t want solved” and less “the system tries to find those solutions but fails because of roadblocks you put in the way (e.g., you didn’t give it enough hardware)”.