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Sure. And I'm probably one of the people here who is most vocal about computational complexity issues limiting what recursive self-improvement can do. But even then, I don't see them as necessarily in the same category. Keep in mind, {L, P, NP, co-NP, PSPACE, EXP} being all distinct are conjectural claims. We can't even prove that L != NP at this point. And in order for this to produce barriers to recursive self-improvement one would likely need even stronger claims.
Well, but that's not an unreasonable position. If I don't have strong evidence either way on a question I should move my estimates close to 50%, That's in contrast to the FTL issue where we have about a hundred years worth of evidence all going in one direction, and that evidence includes other observations involving neutrinos.
SN_1987 shows that neutrinos travel at the speed of light almost all of the time but does not rule out that they might have velocities that exceed that of light very briefly at the moment they're generated. See here for more. Note that I, like the author of the post I've linked, do not believe that this finding will stand up. It's just that if it does stand up, it will be because the constant velocity assumption is wrong.
That would be more than enough to devote a big chunk of the world's resources on friendly AI research, given the associated utility. But you can't just make up completely unfounded conjectures, then claim that we don't have evidence either way but that the utility associated with a negative outcome is huge and we should therefore take it seriously. Because that reasoning will ultimately make you privilege random high-utility outcomes over theories based on empirical evidence.