I mean if you take it from the view point that evolution and genetics is an intelligent system trying to maximize replication/ survival then technicallyyyyy human intelligence was designed by a far stupider intelligence.

It's not new, it's Lovecraftian. A god who births existence, yet for whom reason is entirely alien, whose natural state of being is utter profanity and incomprehensible madness. That's Yogsototh, brother

We would definitely make dumber intelligences to do menial work, in fact for every super-intelligence there would be swarms of dumb-intelligences doing all the work you don't need a super-intelligence for.

We could easily be a vast swarm of idiots whose society in total is calculating something. Well either that or we're a digital ant farm for entertainment, like Sims.

There's jumping to conclusions then there's diving into the conclusion abyss

Hmm, it was my understanding that in most theologies, the concept of omnipotence is incompatible with being dumb: a smarter creator would be "more powerful", and therefore "all powerful" implies infinite intelligence.

Cool comic anyway.

How can beings of limited intelligence design an intelligence that is superior to their own? If they were capable of doing so, would that not undermine the idea that they have a limit on their intelligence? They must necessarily be intelligent enough to comprehend a state of intelligence greater than their own and imagine it clearly and then bring it into reality.

It would be more apt to say that an intelligence superior to our own would design itself after a certain point, at which point I don't think it's correct to say that we designed it, more that it evolved beyond it's own Human-designed limitations.

I don't kmowbif the problem is my Lemmy app or what, but I can't resize this comic to make the teeny tiny text readable like I used to with smbc comics.

there is actually a belief systems like this and not like the lovecraftian comment. Maybe more philosophy in belief systems but it goe back to ancient philosophers and was proposed with christian intellectuals.

But we make AIs that are dumber than us for fun all the time. My favorite PC game as a kid was Creatures.

If we can design intelligences, most intelligences will be designed.

How do you prove that creating beings do not number greater than the intelligences they have created?

Of those intelligences, most will be smarter than us because otherwise they would have little use.

We create simple machines and inferior artificial "intelligences" with limited capabilities for menial tasks. It seems to me that it would make more sense to create many inferior intelligences for menial works, especially in robotics. For example, in mining, to reduce human loss.

We are likely designed intelligence.

How do we know a god exists? Or how do we know this god can create intelligences like ours, just because we (for the purposes of this hypothetical) can?

Our creator is even stupider [sic] than us.

This assumes that designed intelligences must be superior to their creators, which is not logical, as I pointed out. Still, let us assume there is a creator that is, as this comic states, omnipotent.

If this god is omnipotent, it would have, by virtue of omnipotence, no irremovable restrictions on its power, meaning it could expand its own intellect. So we cannot assume it is dumb.

If humans are created for our use, as the comic suggests, then this god must be self-serving. If the god that creates humans is omnipotent (and therefore capable of expanding its intellect) and self-serving, why create humans? The only reason that is visible to me is for worship or some other self-gratification. Why make worshipers with superior intellect? Imagine "awesome is the god who has half our intellect" as a hymn of praise! If anything, it is an insult.

God is all powerful and dumb.

If a deity is all-powerful and dumb, that deity can increase its intelligence because it is omnipotent. One cannot be both omnipotent and incapable of increasing one's own intelligence. For if one is incapable of anything, that being cannot also be omnipotent. One could argue on this basis that, since a lack of intellect is a disability, it is a lack of ability, and therefore incompatible with omnipotence.