> > people seem to overlook the fact that superhuman intelligence already exists as human organizations

> Culture is faster than meat.

> Faster to inculcate. Faster to copy. Faster to communicate. Faster to update.

> And it's a lot harder to kill.

> The day our primate progenitors began passing down their own knowledge to subsequent generations was the greatest leap forward in global learning rate that our planet has ever seen.

> I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.

Culture and memes are the software side of evolution.