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Good points. All this could be solved if the system was reproducible. Given that Cyc is meant to be the successor to Eurisko, I'm surprised they never tried a public, reproducible demo with OpenCyc designing a winning fleet, or playing a game after being taught the rules of it.

But I think the broader point is that even if it could self modify, Eurisko was incapable of learning. Like every other GOFAI program, it exists in its own carefully programmed universe of logic. And it's usefulness as a stepping stone to AGI is limited.

GOFAI research continues today under the label "cognitive architecture".