> If Einstein tried to get a cat in a carrier, and the cat didn't want to go, you know what would happen to Einstein. > > He would have to resort to a brute-force solution that has nothing to do with intelligence, and in that matchup the cat could do pretty well for itself.

Wouldn't it be better to simply motivate the cat to get in the carrier with a can of tuna fish?

This is a very simple form of modeling the cat's mind, using that model to predict its behavior and choosing a course of action that results in the desired outcome. We do this for other humans all day and most of us never resort to brute force. I think it is pretty fair to imagine an AGI that is both better at modeling human minds and better at evaluating possible actions and their outcomes.