What about if we live inside a simulation? AGI may be possible in base reality, but not within the confines of our simulated universe.
Maybe intelligence requires a very large amount of compute. (Maybe even more than is physically possible inside our brains, but the simulation fudges it.) Like you can run a VM in a VM if you have special purpose accelerators. But otherwise a VM^2 is theoretically possible but infeasible given the constraints of compute.
Maybe intelligence requires a very large amount of compute. (Maybe even more than is physically possible inside our brains, but the simulation fudges it.) Like you can run a VM in a VM if you have special purpose accelerators. But otherwise a VM^2 is theoretically possible but infeasible given the constraints of compute.