“a superintelligence might just skip language entirely and figure out a weird pattern of buzzes and hums that causes conscious thought to seize up, and which knocks anyone who hears it into a weird hypnotizable state”
Curiously this mirrors a Doctor Who Episode from 1966. The plot is that many computers are linked together by telephone to combine their intelligences, and the resulting being is smarter than any human. It uses weird buzzes to hypnotise people who it sets to work building war machines for its takeover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Machines
“a superintelligence might just skip language entirely and figure out a weird pattern of buzzes and hums that causes conscious thought to seize up, and which knocks anyone who hears it into a weird hypnotizable state”
Curiously this mirrors a Doctor Who Episode from 1966. The plot is that many computers are linked together by telephone to combine their intelligences, and the resulting being is smarter than any human. It uses weird buzzes to hypnotise people who it sets to work building war machines for its takeover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Machines