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> The movement recently has been people trying to sell something less than this as an AGI.

Selling something that does not yet exist is an essential part of capitalism, which - according to the main thesis of philosophical Accelerationism - is (teleologically) identical to AI. [0] It's sometimes referred to as Hyperstition, i.e. fictions that make themselves real.

[0] https://retrochronic.com