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You are far more knowledgeable than me and a lot better at expressing possible problems with an intelligence explosion.
Since the very beginning I wondered why nobody has written down what speaks against that possibility. Which is one of the reasons for why I even bothered to start arguing against it myself -- the trigger has been a deletion of a certain post which made me realize that there is a lot more to it (socially and psychologically) than the average research project -- even though I knew very well that I don't have the necessary background, nor patience, to do so in a precise and elaborated manner.
Do people think that a skeptical inquiry of, and counterarguments against an intelligence explosion are not valuable?
I don't know about that. The primary issue I've talked about limiting an intelligence explosion is computational complexity issues. That's a necessarily technical area. Moreover, almost all the major boundaries are conjectural. If P=NP in a practical way, than an intelligence explosion may be quite easy. There's also a major danger that in thinking/arguing that this is relevant, I may be engaging in motivated cognition in that there's an obvious bias to thinking that things close to one's own field are somehow relevant.