So picture a trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them
There is almost no way this hypothetical provokes accurate intuitions about a 300 IQ. It’s hard to ask someone to picture something they are literally incapable of picturing and I suspect people hearing this will just default to “someone a little smarter than the smartest person I know of”.
I know I’m doing that and I can’t stop doing it. “A trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them” is something important, but I can’t visualize it at all.
There is almost no way this hypothetical provokes accurate intuitions about a 300 IQ. It’s hard to ask someone to picture something they are literally incapable of picturing and I suspect people hearing this will just default to “someone a little smarter than the smartest person I know of”.
I know I’m doing that and I can’t stop doing it. “A trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them” is something important, but I can’t visualize it at all.
I’m picturing someone with the optimization power of the entire human civilization, which seems a little more tractable.
It’s also based on nothing whatsoever, but it’s at least in the right direction? I hope.