This may be a case of a threshold effect. I’m not sure what your definition of “strongly superintelligent relative to” is, but unlocking language and social networking and planning is definitely a superpower. And one that would be hard to predict until it started to appear.
It’s quite possible that the next jump in ability to optimize the future by application of models (intelligence) is small by some measures, but large in impact due to some capability we currently undervalue.
This may be a case of a threshold effect. I’m not sure what your definition of “strongly superintelligent relative to” is, but unlocking language and social networking and planning is definitely a superpower. And one that would be hard to predict until it started to appear.
It’s quite possible that the next jump in ability to optimize the future by application of models (intelligence) is small by some measures, but large in impact due to some capability we currently undervalue.