Comment by Arkhaine_kupo

I am not someone working on AGI but I think a lot of people work backwards from the expected outcome.

Expected outcome is usually something like a Post-Scarcity society, this is a society where basic needs are all covered.

If we could all live in a future with a free house and a robot that does our chores and food is never scarce we should works towards that, they believe.

The intermiddiete steps aren't thought out, in the same way that for example the communist manifesto does little to explain the transition from capitalism to communism. It simply says there will be the need for things like forcing the bourgiese to join the common workers and there will be a transition phase but no clear steps between either system.

Similarly many AGI proponents think in terms of "wouldnt it be cool if there was an AI that did all the bits of life we dont like doing", without systemic analysis that many people do those bits because they need money to eat for example.