Can a superintelligence do THAT?

(From the vast heaps of discarded material from my 2024 attempts at drafts for "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies".)Welcome to today's quiz show: Can a superintelligence do THAT?With us today we have our contestants: Msr. Soberskeptic and Msr. Oldhand!Soberskeptic: "I'd just like to say, however this quiz show ends up being judged, I will consider that judgment to be objectively ridiculous -- there's no way anyone can know what a superintelligence could do, in advance of empirical observation. ...