Good feedback, and not what I intended to say. I updated my post.
By the way, just to be clear, I'm not saying that you shouldn't work on it or that I think the time/money should be spent elsewhere, just that it isn't the be all end all of possible things to work on.
Not really. Its a chance at maybe something that could benefit mankind greatly, vs spending the time and money on something that definitely will help people right now (there are still a LOT of homeless people, for example, that could be helped right now and don't need an AGI that may or may not come to pass to help them).