What we have is a data glut.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.