Reading novels with ancient powerful beings is probably the best direction you have for imagining how status games amongst creatures which are only loosely human look.
Resources being bounded, there will tend to always be larger numbers of smaller objects (given that those objects are stable).
There will be tiers of creatures. (In a society where this is all relevant)
While a romantic relationship skipping multiple tiers wouldn’t make sense, a single tier might.
The rest of this is my imagination :)
Base humans will be F tier, the lowest category while being fully sentient. (I suppose dolphins and similar would get a special G tier).
Basic AGIs (capable of everything a standard human is, plus all the spikey capabilities) and enhanced humans E tier.
Most creatures will be here.
D tier:
Basic ASIs and super enhanced humans (gene modding for 180+ IQ plus SOTA cyborg implants) will be the next tier, there will be a bunch of these in absolute terms but relative to the earlier tier rarer.
C tier:
Then come Alien Intelligence, massive compute resources supporting ASIs trained on immense amounts of ground reality data, biological creatures that have been redesigned fundamentally to function at higher levels and optimally synergize with neural connections (whether with other carbon based or silicon based lifeforms)
B tier:
Planet sized clusters running ASIs will be a higher tier.
A, S tiers:
Then you might get entire stars, then galaxies.
There will be much less at each level.
Most tiers will have a -, neutral or +.
- : prototype, first or early version. Qualitatively smarter than the tier below, but non-optimized use of resources, often not the largest gap from the + of the earlier tier
Neutral: most low hanging optimizations and improvements and some harder ones at this tier are implemented
+: highly optimized by iteratively improved intelligences or groups of intelligences at this level, perhaps even by a tier above.
Reading novels with ancient powerful beings is probably the best direction you have for imagining how status games amongst creatures which are only loosely human look.
Resources being bounded, there will tend to always be larger numbers of smaller objects (given that those objects are stable).
There will be tiers of creatures. (In a society where this is all relevant)
While a romantic relationship skipping multiple tiers wouldn’t make sense, a single tier might.
The rest of this is my imagination :)
Base humans will be F tier, the lowest category while being fully sentient. (I suppose dolphins and similar would get a special G tier).
Basic AGIs (capable of everything a standard human is, plus all the spikey capabilities) and enhanced humans E tier.
Most creatures will be here.
D tier:
Basic ASIs and super enhanced humans (gene modding for 180+ IQ plus SOTA cyborg implants) will be the next tier, there will be a bunch of these in absolute terms but relative to the earlier tier rarer.
C tier:
Then come Alien Intelligence, massive compute resources supporting ASIs trained on immense amounts of ground reality data, biological creatures that have been redesigned fundamentally to function at higher levels and optimally synergize with neural connections (whether with other carbon based or silicon based lifeforms)
B tier:
Planet sized clusters running ASIs will be a higher tier.
A, S tiers:
Then you might get entire stars, then galaxies.
There will be much less at each level.
Most tiers will have a -, neutral or +.
- : prototype, first or early version. Qualitatively smarter than the tier below, but non-optimized use of resources, often not the largest gap from the + of the earlier tier
Neutral: most low hanging optimizations and improvements and some harder ones at this tier are implemented
+: highly optimized by iteratively improved intelligences or groups of intelligences at this level, perhaps even by a tier above.