Anything smarter-than-human should be regarded as containing unimaginably huge forces held in check only by the balanced internal structure of those forces, since there is nothing which could resist them if unleashed. The degree of 'obedience' makes very little difference to this fact, which must be dealt with before you can go on to anything else.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.