In the same sense you could say this is exactly the same. For any classical computer:
-protein folding is intractable in general, then whatever natural selection found must constitute special cases that are tractable, and that’s most probably what alphafold found. This was extraordinary cool, but that doesn’t mean alphafold solved protein folding in general. Even nature can get prions wrong.
-quantum computing is intractable in general, but one can find special cases that are actually tractable, or where good approximations is all you need, and that what occupy most of physicists time.
In other words, you can expect a superintelligence to find marvelous pieces of science, or to kill everyone with classical guns, or to kill everyone with techs that looks like magic, but it won’t actually break RSA, for the same reason it won’t beat you at tic-tac-toe: superintelligences won’t beat math.
In the same sense you could say this is exactly the same. For any classical computer:
-protein folding is intractable in general, then whatever natural selection found must constitute special cases that are tractable, and that’s most probably what alphafold found. This was extraordinary cool, but that doesn’t mean alphafold solved protein folding in general. Even nature can get prions wrong.
-quantum computing is intractable in general, but one can find special cases that are actually tractable, or where good approximations is all you need, and that what occupy most of physicists time.
In other words, you can expect a superintelligence to find marvelous pieces of science, or to kill everyone with classical guns, or to kill everyone with techs that looks like magic, but it won’t actually break RSA, for the same reason it won’t beat you at tic-tac-toe: superintelligences won’t beat math.