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.
Superintelligences don’t have genes.
Well, most superintelligences don’t have genes.
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.
What follows is just a copy-and-paste of another reply, but:
By “gene” I mean:
“Small chunk of heritable information”
http://alife.co.uk/essays/informational_genetics/
Any sufficiently long-term persistent structure persists via a copying process—and so has “genes” in this sense.