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It's satirical, parodying arguments against superhuman machine intelligence. IMO it's also not as clever as it thinks it is.

Pointing out someone's mistake and not taking the opportunity to belittle them; Good ol' HN

I think it's very clever. Even if I think that the sarcasm of the paper express the message perfectly, after reading some of the comments here, I'm going to spell it.

It's telling us: we live in a material universe, intelligence is just a function of physical attributes. If you want to deny the possibility of machine intelligence, the burden of proof is on you because, denying that would be so ridiculous as denying supersized machines.

I think this paper publication date (April 1, 2017) may mean something.

FTA:

>2 It is worth clarifying that there are, of course, systems today that appear to exceed human size in narrow dimensions. Lamp posts are one example. The predictions that we are considering concern some more general notion of largeness.

Or both, such as proliferation of the skyscrapers and big building complexes.