> it seems reasonable to guess that the smallest possible margin above us is such that even asking that question is like asking the question is akin to asking C

> it seems reasonable to guess that the smallest possible margin above us is such that even asking that question is like asking the question is akin to asking Chimpanzees to imagine the moon landing, while at worst it's like asking your lawn the same question. "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger" with regards to the hierarchy of intelligence - the "at worst" is much further away than human-to-lawn. Look at the intellectual power of angels in Catholic theology and consider an intelligence that can reason from universals to all particular instances as its default mode of operation. Then consider that each angelic being is distinct from each other one by nature (since they are immaterial). Which means that there is a species-level difference between each of them and the lowest one is already far above us. Then consider that there are (at least) billions of them, each one order of magnitude more intelligent than the one below it. Then consider the kind of intellect that can create those kinds of intellects. Fortunately, you can't give what you don't have, so we're quite safe from the basilisk. But the wild imaginings of John C. Wright's Count to the Eschaton Sequence are probably not far off for "hey how weird could it get?"