The question that's screaming at me right now is that if humans used specialization + cooperation to achieve global dominance, what happens when you pair unlimited global masterminds + cooperation?
Also a funny thought, with enough of a mind it should be able to figure out how to get very limited storage and barely usable computation at very low speed out of some extremely cheap substrate. Something like growing salt crystals in a lake (or ocean) Have a write pump flashing a light onto salt water and a read pump discarding undesirable results to be overwritten. You know, like, it doesn't matter if you encode randomly, if you do it often enough you will get the entire set. You don't have to read accurately either, as long as you get at least some results out.
wait, did I just explain the universe?