I am merely playing Devil's Advocate. I personally think that speedups of 1000-fold and million-fold etc. are a really big deal. "Quantity has a quality all it

I am merely playing Devil's Advocate. I personally think that speedups of 1000-fold and million-fold etc. are a really big deal. "Quantity has a quality all its own." Nonetheless, it remains possible that there is a difference between fast intelligence solving things faster than we can, versus a superintelligence (from extraterrestrial aliens or something) that can create superior inventions or art or math or whatever that humans couldn't no matter how much time was allowed. Time is not always the issue. Anecdote from the Feynman biography "Genius": A physicist once said that there were two kinds of genius. The first kind was the sort that a good but non-genius physicist could imagine that they, too, could have achieved the same results as the genius, if only they could work on just that for decades or even lifetimes. But then he said that Feynman was the second kind of genius, whose results seemed to have been created by magic, and that ordinary physicists could not imagine achieving no matter how long they worked at it. The key thing here is that some pretty smart people already believe that there are at least two kinds of very high intelligence, one of which is not related to speed. So my point is merely that the same might apply to these other topics. We know so little about how to create a mind that there simply is no proof one way or the other. And that latter is an objective fact. There is no existing algorithms for creating human-level minds that merely needs more cpu + ram + disk to work, there just isn't. So we don't know. Different people choose to believe one way or the other. That's all.