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300 IQ is 10 standard deviations above the mean. So picture a trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them and take the smartest person out of all of this and transport him to our reality and make it very easy for him to quickly clone himself. Do you really think it would take this guy five full years to dominate scientific output?
There is almost no way this hypothetical provokes accurate intuitions about a 300 IQ. It's hard to ask someone to picture something they are literally incapable of picturing and I suspect people hearing this will just default to "someone a little smarter than the smartest person I know of".
I know I'm doing that and I can't stop doing it. "A trillion planets each with a trillion humans on them" is something important, but I can't visualize it at all.
I'm picturing someone with the optimization power of the entire human civilization, which seems a little more tractable.
It's also based on nothing whatsoever, but it's at least in the right direction? I hope.