Comment by Michael_Mulligan on Detached Lever Fallacy · 2008-08-04T02:59:56.000Z · LW · GW

You could say the 'lever' approach is equivalent to impatiently trying to go only as 'deep' as need be, to get results. There are subfields though, eg 'Adaptive Behavior' and 'Developmental Robotics' that, while not calling themselves AGI, have it as their ultimate goal and have buckled down for the long haul, working from the bottom up.