Anna Salamon and I have finished a draft of "Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import", under peer review for The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment (forthcoming from Springer).
Your comments are most welcome.
Edit: As of 3/31/2012, the link above now points to a preprint.
In a footnote, it is said:
Could you explain how this might work? I'm concerned that if there is less QC hardware than classical hardware, then we would likely know less about QC hardware (compared to classical) than a nascent AI. Would it be safer to run it on, e.g., a classical "potato"? Or are you saying that a classical potato would upload itself onto better classical hardware asap, but a quantum potato would be unable to do so?