I have always imagined that a superintelligence would not encounter the problems that we the human race encounter and have encountered.
Anomaly654 wrote:a superintelligence would be something that is able to show good sense quickly along with the capacity for inventive thought
The movie Soylent Green comes to mind. Efficient and utilitarian use of a commodity?
I have never seen the movie so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Are you saying that an efficient and utilitarian use of a commodity is a super intelligent thing to do based on the definition I gave or that a superintelligence would exhibit this type of thought - I am leaning toward the former as a guess to what you meant - and perhaps both.
A point that stood out in the Wikipedia article was contained within the plot to the movie and is as follows: The 20th century's industrialization led to overcrowding, pollution and global warming due to the greenhouse effect. It now has me wondering whether industrialization or overcrowding shows that we are intelligent at all - even though I intend some sarcasm, surely a superintelligence would be able to avoid such problems with forethought.