Tim Tyler: The second superintelligence

[lovelydead1]

even if we had a world government eventually there would be rebels.

[GreenDesert]

excellent, please continue

[motters2001]

You could regard world wars or the cold war as competitions between collective superintelligences.

[gravelftw]

Err.. different things really. He's talking about superintelligence at an entirely different scale. Sophisticated governments of smart citizens could be "intelligence clusters" at best, but not "superintelligence."