Things That Are Not Superintelligences

A deliberately-minor reference post ('posting it so I have something to link to') arguing that corporations/bureaucracies/civilizations are NOT superintelligences: groups get real advantages (memory, parallelism, pooling) but can't route around the need for genuine intelligence — they're only as smart as their smartest member. 'There is no number of chimpanzees which, when organized into a team, will become smart enough to learn to write.' Groups can parallelize Level-N problems but can't crack Level N+1; the EDIT handles the 'but neurons combine into a brain' objection (the organizer does the work).

Quality 64 · Strong. 64 — low Strong. A clear, useful conceptual clarification with a memorable, oft-quoted line (the chimpanzees/novel framing) that earns its keep as a link-to reference. Held firmly at low-Strong because it's short, single-point, and Scott himself frames it as minor.

Claude’s paradigm shift 50 · Moderate. 50 — Moderate. The group-vs-genuine-intelligence distinction (Level N+1, organizer-does-the-work) is a modestly fresh clarification for AI discourse.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 2 — minor/within-blog. 'No number of chimpanzees' became a small piece of AI-discourse rhetoric; no material reach.