I don't think they more intelligent so much as more cunning, and more willing to be evil and have amassed more wealth and power with generational nepotism.
If they were intelligent they would make society more intelligent/ efficient, build out on other planets instead of wasting money on shit.
That's a terrible analogy. Are they going to eat us? Are the cows repairing my milking equipment? I certainly wouldn't be spending money on gay cow parades and goading them into fighting each other. Stressed cows don't produce milk and have shitty meat.
By "society" I wasn't referring only to the populace, but they way society is set up and run. You don't need dumb truck drivers when you have self driving vehicles. Yes this is the direction they are pushing things but there is a lot of areas that could and can currently be automated but they aren't.
But if the part of society that is the populace were smarter they could build, repair and run complex machines.
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