I would assume that shortly after, the solar system will be hyper optimized as well, then the milky way, then the local cluster, and so on. Everything will be close to optimal afterwords, and I sure hope we will have specified the target function for that optimization correctly in the single attempt that we will have had.
Often repeated meme doesn’t have any bearing to reality.
The orthogonality thesis sounds like a fun gotcha but if you give it some thought you realise how strange it sounds and the opposite thesis - collinearity thesis is actually correct.
1. Intelligence transfers and compounds
2. Goals of agents are not arbitrary
3. Our goals and agent goals are more likely to be aligned at the deeper level