It is not superior strength or perception that led humans to dominate this planet, but superior intelligence.
This is sort of suspect unless you get really specific about intelligence. It wasn’t the ability to prove theorems, detect underwater mines, play chess or Jeopardy, do original science, or design artificial intelligences that earned homo sapiens dominance of Earth. It was superior social organization / connection (which depends on intelligence, but a demonstrably different kind).
Now, if you want to ask why Europeans invented progress and dominated much of the world, then you get into the sort of intelligence that helps you prove theorems or do original science. But even then, the social aspect is massively important- capitalism / individualism was probably more important in European dominance than European science (though the two are inherently linked!).
And so if you have a program that self-recursively improves until it is as good as possible at writing programs, there’s still no guarantee it’ll be good at dominating the world. After all, that’s not a coding problem!
This is sort of suspect unless you get really specific about intelligence. It wasn’t the ability to prove theorems, detect underwater mines, play chess or Jeopardy, do original science, or design artificial intelligences that earned homo sapiens dominance of Earth. It was superior social organization / connection (which depends on intelligence, but a demonstrably different kind).
Now, if you want to ask why Europeans invented progress and dominated much of the world, then you get into the sort of intelligence that helps you prove theorems or do original science. But even then, the social aspect is massively important- capitalism / individualism was probably more important in European dominance than European science (though the two are inherently linked!).
And so if you have a program that self-recursively improves until it is as good as possible at writing programs, there’s still no guarantee it’ll be good at dominating the world. After all, that’s not a coding problem!