So regarding objective function, one idea I just had is this: Teach them warfare. To quote a cliche: "we live in a society". As humans we are embedded in a soc

So regarding objective function, one idea I just had is this: Teach them warfare. To quote a cliche: "we live in a society". As humans we are embedded in a social environment which has a few important features: We cooperate, we compete and we die. These three pillars are the basis of our culture (a concept we should apply to AI btw). Because of competition we are forced to learn everything there is to learn (general intelligence), to get a leg up. Because of cooperation and death we need to continuously transmit and share knowledge with our friends and the next generations. Ever changing alliances means we need to get good at both deception and detecting it. For this reason I think warfare is ideal for reaching general AI.