> There have already been intelligence explosions... reading and writing... iodine supplementation... It's dubious to refer to these individual events as "expl

> There have already been intelligence explosions... reading and writing... iodine supplementation... It's dubious to refer to these individual events as "explosions". They're just single significant changes. Any event in humans or AI you could respectably call an explosion would be a cascade (note: causally interconnected) of a large number of these individual intelligence-increasing changes. If anything, I'd argue that the buildup of communal knowledge in human civilizations over the last several thousand years, especially the last few centuries, has been an explosion of sorts. It's been a huge increase in capability for one species, and would look like a step change on a timescale that includes all Earth life. But if that's an explosion, writing was just one of the chemical reactions.