alt Hacker NewsIt has nothing to do with circular reasoning or my personal opinions.
You can choose to define general intelligence in a way that excludes regular people if you like, but then you'd be using a weird definition that differs from how 99.9% of people define it. Humans have general intelligence by any common definition.
Defining it that way doesn't exclude ordinary people. That's an erroneous claim on your part.
Humans as a class exhibit certain capabilities. Thus we expect a class of algorithm to either roughly meet or exceed those capabilities across the board in order to be considered "general". It is clear that we have not yet achieved that.