> energy into giving birth to a Superintelligence, and that Superintelligence will fix everything

Beware of any and all plans with a huge (magic happens here) step.

Overthrow the capitalist class, declare a Communist state, and (magic happens here) and then workers' paradise!

Pour loads of investment money in this company, they put everything into marketing and scaling, and (magic happens here) and they are profitable!

Tear down the system and overthrow the government and (magic happens here) and everything will be better!

Elevate a strong leader, give them all the resources they need, put all our support behind them, and (magic happens here) and America is great again!

Etc.

Magic does not happen. Problems are solved by solving them.

I'm not a believer in the doom scenarios, but lets say we do build a superintelligence. Who says it fixes all our problems? To get that to happen we'd have to work with it, align it, and apply it properly, and that's fixing all our problems with a new tool. It is not "magic" and would require a lot of effort and work.

Ultimately the attraction of these kinds of ideas is they let us off from thinking and working. Magic means someone or something does it for us. Unfortunately I don't think the universe lets you do that. Thinking and working is mandatory. New tools, even superintelligent AI tools, just changes the nature of the thinking and working and might allow more to be accomplished more easily or quickly.

Sorry folks. The flying saucers are never coming.