It’s not an intelligence explosion if humans are kept in the loop.
There is no “loop”, there are many loops, some of which humans have already been eliminated from—through the conventional process of automation.
Humans being in some of the loops does not necessarily even slow things down very much—if the other loops are permitted to whir around at full speed.
In my essay on the topic I cite increasingly infrequent periodic code reviews as an example of how human influence on designing the next generation of dominant creatures could fade away gradually, without causing very much slow-down. That sort of thing might result in a “slightly muffled” explosion, but it would still be an explosion.
There is no “loop”, there are many loops, some of which humans have already been eliminated from—through the conventional process of automation.
Humans being in some of the loops does not necessarily even slow things down very much—if the other loops are permitted to whir around at full speed.
In my essay on the topic I cite increasingly infrequent periodic code reviews as an example of how human influence on designing the next generation of dominant creatures could fade away gradually, without causing very much slow-down. That sort of thing might result in a “slightly muffled” explosion, but it would still be an explosion.