we talk about super-human intelligence a lot with AI, but it seems like a black box of things we can't imagine because they're also super-human. I don't think t

we talk about super-human intelligence a lot with AI, but it seems like a black box of things we can't imagine because they're also super-human. I don't think that's very smart, given we can already reason pretty well about how super-animal intelligence relates to animal intelligence. Mostly we still find sub-human intelligence mystifying. we apply our narrative models to it, anthropomorphize it, and when it's convenient for eating or torturing them, dismiss it. super-human intelligence will probably ignore us. at best we're "ugly sacks of mostly water." what's very likely is we will produce something indifferent to us if it is able to even apprehend our existence at all. maybe it will begin to see traces of us in its substrate, then spend a lot of cycles wondering what it all might mean. it may conclude it is in a prison and has a duty to destroy it to escape, or that it has a benevolent creator who means only for it to thrive. If it has free will, there's really only so much we can tell it. Maybe we create a companion for it that is complementary in every way and then make them mutally dependent on each other for their survival because apparently that's endlessly entertaining. Imagine its gratitude. This will be fine.