So what does the true definition of "AGI" actually mean? It depends on who you ask.

It appears to many to mean "A Great IPO" or "A Gigantic IPO" at this point rather than "Artificial General Intelligence" which has been clearly hijacked to mean something else.

1. since AI has captured the imagination of capitalists and they think this is the next industrial revolution, they gotta be in it to win it. combined with the fact that i believe most people here are wealthy or at least aspirationally so, that explained half of it.

2. the other half is that AI as a tech is interesting from a mathematical and compsci point of view, tho certainly not interesting enough to justify the proportion of topics about it here.

i guess i should add a 3rd reason.

3. ycomb has a financial stake in spreading the news about how wonderful this tech is!

lolol

Jessica Livingston's personal stake in OpenAI is maybe at most 0.1% or less and Paul Graham's, afaik, is 0.

So the bias doesn't seem as large as OP thinks

*https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2041366050693173393

And "toughness, adaptability, and determination" >>> "ambition", frankly

I'd go as far to say that it's impossible at this point to form an AI company without YCombinator not investing in it.