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the entire point of researching self improving AI is to move programs from the world of software that stays put the way it's created, never evolving, into a world we don't directly control.
Yes. I think the skeptics don't take self-improving AI very seriously. Self-modifying programs in general are too hard to engineer, except in very narrow specialized way. A self-modifying program that rapidly achieves across-the-board superhuman ability seems like a fairy tale, not a serious engineering concern.
If there were an example of a program that self-improves in any nontrivial way at all, people might take this concern more seriously.