I disagree even with your interpretation of that document, but that is not the point emphasized in the grandparent. I acknowledge that while a superintelligence need not have genes it is in fact possible to construct a superintelligence that does relies significantly on “small sections of heritable information”, including the possibility of a superintelligence that relies on genes in actual DNA. Hence the slight weakening of the claim.
They do if you use an information-theory definition of the term—like the ones on:
http://alife.co.uk/essays/informational_genetics/
I disagree even with your interpretation of that document, but that is not the point emphasized in the grandparent. I acknowledge that while a superintelligence need not have genes it is in fact possible to construct a superintelligence that does relies significantly on “small sections of heritable information”, including the possibility of a superintelligence that relies on genes in actual DNA. Hence the slight weakening of the claim.