I've got an original Apple ][ reference manual (red cover) with the hand annotated ROM listing.

Also have SMALLTALK-80 book with it's railtrack diagrams of syntax on the inside covers.

What's really interesting about the AI mania we're in is that no one has shown that what we have now will get to AGI and how. We have great models that simulate reasoning, but how close are they?

How do we measure their quality? Benchmarks? Tooling?

A different point of view on AGI is that we humans do not achieve AGI. Our brains aren’t capable of it. We get close enough to trick the other humans we compete against for resources. How would we prove that’s not true? Something like IQ tests? We don’t have good tests or benchmarks or tooling for this in ourselves, let alone the reproduction in machines. No one knows definitively what AGI actually is so, depending on where you set that bar, we might already be there.

> No one knows definitively what AGI actually is

The current "leaders" in this field are defining it to be whatever they think they can achieve by adding compute.

I know I have "general intelligence", but can I prove it to you (or anyone else)? Not really, but in my solipsistic world, I don't have to.

Maybe we should set some definitions before trying to "get there" when we don't where "there" is.

> Who remembers LISP being new?

Unfortunately, I don't think there are too many of those folks left today. Guesstimating, the people who remembers lisp being new must be around 85-90 today?

Switching from bang paths to an @ address, oh my!