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A former employee of Cyc did an insightful AMA on HN back in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828

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> But the longer I worked there the more I felt like the plan was basically:

> 1. Manually add more and more common-sense knowledge and extend the inference engine

> 2. ???

> 3. AGI!

In retrospect, this reasoning doesn't seem to be so wrong.

I mean if I were to oversimplify and over-abstract AGI into a long list of if / elses, that's how I'd go about it. It's just that there's A Lot to consider.

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