The minds of enhanced people

[Drashner1]

I doubt they would have a lot of social life with baselines and nearbaselines. It would be hard to relate to people who can't understand their own minds. They are both modos, but relating would be like kidergardeners vs. PHD's. They would have nothing to say to each other.

Phd's often have children who become kindergartners - and they usually manage to have something to say to them.

Beyond that, the common SF trope that superior intelligences must find less capable minds incredibly boring or unrelatable seems to ignore the possibility that a superior intelligence could also possess superior empathy, as well as superior patience. Superiors would certainly eventually have their own communities if/when they wanted them - but they would be an option, not a requirement. Many Su might live in them - but many others would not.

It is no surprise Superiors rule society. No one else can think like they do. With all of the robots around, I'm surprised the superiors even bother with employing baselines. After 2 centuries, the robots would probably take up most jobs on Earth. I would think the cis lunar volume would locked up too since most humans except the vaccum adapted are pricey to put in space. Even in primitive 2016 robots rule space.

Superiors don't rule society - transapients do To them, a Superior is merely a slightly more clever pet (or houseplant, or rock).

Automation does play a major role in the civilization we envision and could indeed do most or all jobs from a point fairly early in the timeline - which simply means that thinking of Terragen civ as being merely 'the culture we have now, but in space' doesn't work. The societies of the OA timeline are going to be quite different from pretty much anything we've experienced or imagined in many many ways.

Todd