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Turns out, we don't need transoceanic flight; we can put horses on stirrups, and have an elegant system of clockwork to allow them to power a boat.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-past...

Carmack or someone said that all of the pieces needed for AGI are already solved, it's just a matter of someone scouring through 40+ years of AI research and finding the right papers/techniques and putting the concepts together

I'm not entirely sure we have even identified all the problems of AGI yet, if so would be interested to see that list?

And while airplanes don't solve the "problem" of human connectedness, it's inevitably a conversation led by advocates of transoceanic flight still hankering for flying cars and living in the Jetsons world of the 1950s futurists - long after transoceanic flight has become an actual problem.

Same thing. Different parochial perspective.

And people who work on transoceanic flights advertise unicorns to people.