That's a lovely thought. But there has been no Final Bubble. We keep making them, and we keep making recessions. Pretty much every 10-15 years for quite a while now.
We will never "get on with... putting an economy/society back together".
We will leverage our future to escape the consequences of this bubble/recession. Which will cause another bubble/recession.
As Buzz Lightyear says: To $100 trillion debt, and beyond!

Naturally I assumed /. readers would already be familiar with The Kackle Exception.

The answer is yes, but...

All the techbros invested in More Compute (speed/size) as the path to AGI are idiots. Human deliberative consciousness and the human adaptive unconscious were not some inevitable, magical outcome of making neurons fire faster and brain volume larger. Quite the opposite cause-effect. The human mind isn't about the speed/size of the hardware, but about the complexity of the software that runs on that hardware. That is, consciousness IS the layers, or more precisely, a temporary emergent state coaxed out of the layers.

The billionaires can convert the entire planet's surface into Compute with our current software, and we still won't have AGI.
AGI, if it ever arrives, will happen not because some Nobel physicist or engineer master-planned a silicon brain. It will happen because of trillions of actions taken by in-the-trenches hackers who collectively recapitulate exactly what Natural Selection did --
desperately throw together a crappy kludge solution to today's problems,
which arose from the desperate kludge a different dev threw together yesterday to solve yesterday's problems,
which arose from the desperate kludge a different dev threw together yesterday to solve yesterday's problems,
which arose from the desperate kludge a different dev threw together yesterday to solve yesterday's problems....

Stasis itself is not static.
Your mind and my mind are the reverberations of a clump of cells running flailing around as furiously as they can to stumble onto behaviors that allowed them to stay one step ahead of the Halt and Catch Fire state. Your mind isn't a beautiful unique little piece of the Universal Spirit coming to know itself. Your mind is a neurotic layer of recursive kludges terrified of letting itself conclude that it is, in fact, just Kludgeception all the way down.

There are exactly zero human minds running flawless perfect cognition.
Perfect code is a lie.
So why do people expect AGI to arise from some perfectly-architected code?

You're right that our slapdash layer stacks are doing harm. Good. The entire human mind is what happens when a tangible physical body is repeatedly harmed by external stimuli, and then attempts to predict and thereby avoid that harm in the future. Your identity is merely a behavioral pattern composed of the Venn overlap of tens of thousands of harm-avoidance kludge subroutines. Your choices are merely the total vector sum of all the motives of all these kludges.

AGI will come from rotten sloppy contradictory code that acquires the capability not to be perfect, but to keep going despite being rotten and conflicted.

So, collectively, we are on the right track!

As the LCD Soundsystem song goes:

I hear you're buying a synthesizer
And an arpeggiator
And throwing your computer out the window
Because you want to make something real
You want to make a Yaz record

I hear that you
and your band
have sold your guitars
And bought turntables.
I hear that you
and your band
have sold your turntables
And bought guitars

Oh I'm sure it can be accessed somewhere. My point wasn't that I wanted the info. My point was about their choice to configure their official website to deny access to information about their product if you reject their cookies.

When loading their homepage, their site's built-in standard popup informs you about cookies and asks you to click a button to accept all, accept some, or reject all. I clicked their option to reject cookies. When I go to the "How It Works" page, the video thumbnail is grayed over, with text that says, "Please accept cookies to access this content". If I click on the video to watch it, the standard popup reappears and asks me to accept cookies. If I again reject, the video remains inaccessible.

Hence, their website refuses to show the video if you explicitly refuse to allow cookies.

The argument is easy to make, yes.
But the legislation isn't.

What are some examples of this kind of thing where the scope did not creep beyond its original purpose?
Now how many examples are there where the scope does creep and never return to its original dimensions?
And after watching the past 16 months, do you continue to trust our rulers to operate within morally/legally sound boundaries when beefing up their surveillance/control systems?

The "How It Works" video on the Sonic Fire website refuses to show you the video if you don't allow tracking cookies.
Ew.

From what I've heard, you also can pay the big bucks for Concur and still find out that the taskflow and documentation is not nearly as smooth as the consultant demo, and you still have a huge process tangle requiring a haggard team of people to manually fix all the things that go wrong and enter correct information.

The link in the title banner goes to a reuters story about whales.

Yeah. Auvelity has to be one of the most ironic medications on the market. It's a traditional antidepressant paired with what everyone thinks of as "cough syrup". Which when people first hear about it they assume the cough syrup must be there for some kind of ancillary effect to support the antidepressant. But it's actually the other way around. The wellbutrin is the supporting actor, included merely because it gets chemically processed by your body in a way that slows the breakdown/filtration of the dextromethorphan from your bloodstream, so you get a larger longer-lasting dose of the dex. The so called "cough syrup" is, as you point out, what does the real work.

Oh definitely. Horses not zebras.
I don't, of course, actually know the reason for the article. But it definitely reads like the kind of thing someone would write in an campaign to astroturf some Yellow Panic for the sake of new federal policy or contract dollars.

SO:
He moved to China at least a full year ago.
Five months ago he spoke in front of a crowd at a conference.
The news of his appointment to the company was covered in the media.
This current story is not the first account of his move, it's just "the most comprehensive... since he moved".
This is just the first time Reuters has bothered to report... [insert list of scare phrases where straightforward facts that are exactly what you'd expect from every engineering/tech research operation on the planet with regard to the scope of its research.

Then, ask yourself why this piece of "news" exists, when its informational content isn't even really news. Most of it is old and already publicly available.

This reads like a piece of breathlessly-fearmongered agitprop someone in the MIC fed to a Reuters asset so it will be shared across the Internet and remind Americans once again that we are surrounded by terrifying external enemies and need to keep the $1.2billion/each rockets and drones rolling off the assembly line.