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I've asked this elsewhere. Here goes again with some refinement:
So, {Possible AI} > {Evolved Intelligence} > {Human Intelligence}. What about {AI practically discoverable/inventable by near-term human civilization}? While possible AIs are practically boundless, the set of AIs that a few tens of thousands of researchers and supporting colleagues are likely to produce in our near-term reality is distinctly finite. (Though the "hull" of those points might subtend a large region of design space indeed.)
For clarity, when you say "evolved intelligence" vs "human intelligence", what are you referring to?
I'm talking about the design space of all intelligences that could evolve through the process of natural selection. "Human intelligence" is just the subset that has and could manifest as Homo sapiens and descendants through the process of natural selection.
Ah. That makes more sense than I originally thought.
I'd say it is a superset of {Human Intelligence} (since humans can easily fabricate more human intelligences - it's so easy, we often start the process entirely by accident) and a subset of {Possible AI} (since there are almost certainly likely to be mind designs that are too complex, too alien, or too somethingelse to be near-term feasible.)
Whether {Near-Term Human-Inventible AIs} has a large vs small overlap with {Evolved Intelligences} is an interesting question, but not one for which I can think of any compelling arguments offhand.