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I'm really looking for a justification of the nuclear reactor metaphor for intelligence amplifying intelligence, on the software level.
AI might explode sure, but exponential intelligence amplification on the software level pretty much guarantees it on the first AI rather than us having to wait around and possibly merge before the explosion.
As I understand it, the nuclear reactor metaphor is simply another way of saying "explosive" or "trending at least exponentially".
Note that most (admittedly fictional) descriptions of intelligence explosion include "bootstrapping" improved hardware (e.g. Greg Egan's Crystal Nights)