AGI FANTASY IS A BLOCKER TO ACTUAL ENGINEERING

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

The pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is bad for actual engineering. The belief in AGI, particularly within companies like OpenAI, is being used to justify environmentally damaging and exploitative practices in the pursuit of limitless scaling. AGI's supposed high expected value relies on arbitrary and unfalsifiable estimations while ignoring tangible negative externalities.