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The distinction between general intelligence and superintelligence hinges on the breadth and depth of represented primitives. Humans, even with high IQs, rarely possess the capacity to represent every primitive or abstraction in totality. Their neuroplasticity diminishes over time, limiting their learning and adaptability.
In contrast, a superintelligent AI would possess a comprehensive set of primitive representations—potentially including complex, high-order abstractions like the entire human timeline, or even the entire spectrum of future possibilities. Analogous to the guild navigators in Frank Herbert’s Dune, capable of holding vast possibilities in their minds, such systems might require hundreds of trillions of parameters, or novel efficiencies in encoding.