The speaker considers superintelligences analogous to people with a strategic vision for industrialization but without hands-on expertise: they may know the broad path of technological improvement while initially lacking practical know-how.

“like that analogy a lot actually i think it's not perfect but it's a decent analogy like imagine if a bunch of us got sent back in time to the roman empire Yeah. such that we don't have the like actual hands-on know-how to like actually build the technology and make the industrial revolution happen but we have the sort of like high level picture the strategic vision of like we're going to make these machines and then we're going to like do”

“an industrial i think that's kind of analogous to the situation with the super intelligences where they”

“where they like have the high level picture of like here's how we're going to improve and all these dimensions we're going to learn by doing we're going to get to this level of technology etc but maybe they at least initially lack the like actual know-how”