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I agree with all that, I was just running with the idea that one way or another, truly superior beings would in the end displace the rest, with or without actual war.
Now, successful breeding combined with life extension for all, so that present-day average people get to live into a future dominated by the results of several generations of breeding, that could be an interesting scenario for an SF story. I would expect the violence to originate with the marginalised rather than the elite.
You might be interested in "Nobody Home" by Joanna Russ. A woman who's reasonably bright by modern standards just doesn't fit in a future where everyone else is much brighter than she is. No violence, just a miserable trap for her.
I don't consider that future all that plausible-- it seems unlikely that there was only one person at that intelligence level.