Indeed, Flatland makes a similar point.

And that's an interesting point about ants. Superintelligence might take small rather than large forms. Ants certainly have complex societies. But isolated superintelligence isn't as eerie as the kind that would be well-equipped with a body to apply its knowledge in transforming the environment. Evidently, ants are more limited and less ambitious in that respect than are people. Plus, superintelligence would need a substrate. Ants' individual brains aren't so complex, so the intelligence would have to be distributed across the colony.