Just to be clear: Are you looking for criticisms of the intelligence explosion hypothesis or of MIRI? The hypothesis is just one of many claims made by MIRI researchers, and not the most controversial one. Are you just going to be arguing for the plausibility of a (reasonably imminent) intelligence explosion, or are you planning on defending the whole suite of MIRIesque beliefs?
Just to be clear: Are you looking for criticisms of the intelligence explosion hypothesis or of MIRI? The hypothesis is just one of many claims made by MIRI researchers, and not the most controversial one. Are you just going to be arguing for the plausibility of a (reasonably imminent) intelligence explosion, or are you planning on defending the whole suite of MIRIesque beliefs?
Only the IE as defended by MIRI; it’d be a much longer talk if I wanted to defend everything they’ve put forward!
Short duration hard takeoff, A la That Alien Message? That’s one of the hardest claims for MIRI to justify.