This is good point, which I like to have more precisely analysed. (And I miss deeper analyse in The Book :) )
Could we count will (motivation) of today’s superpowers = megacorporations as human’s or not? (and in which level could they control economy?)
In other worlds: Is Searle’s chinese room intelligent? (in definition which The Book use for (super)intelligence)
And if it is then it is human or alien mind?
And could be superintelligent?
What arguments we could use to prove that none of today’s corporations (or states or their secret services) is superintelligent? Think collective intelligence with computer interfaces! Are they really slow at thinking? How could we measure their IQ?
And could we humans (who?) control it (how?) if they are superintelligent? Could we at least try to implement some moral thinking (or other human values) to their minds? How?
Law? Is law enough to prevent that superintelligent superpower will do wrong things? (for example destroy rain forrest because he want to make more paperclips?)
First of all thanx for work with this discussion! :)
My proposals:
wiki page for collaborative work
There are some points in the book which could be analysed or described better and probably which are wrong. We could find them and help improve. wiki could help us to do it
better time for europe and world?
But this is probably not a problem. If it is a problem then it is probably not solvable. We will see :)