> For example, it might program a virus that will infect every computer in the world, causing them to fill their empty memory with partial copies of the superintelligence, which when networked together become full copies of the superintelligence. Now the superintelligence controls every computer in the world, including the ones that target nuclear weapons. At this point it can force humans to bargain with it, and part of that bargain might be enough resources to establish its own industrial base, and then we’re in humans vs. lions territory again.

I believe there's a rift between doomers and eye-rollers because this kind of leap sounds either hollywood-hacker-sci-fi or plausible-and-obvious. The notion that software can re-deploy an improved version of itself without human intervention is just outside the realm of possibility to me (or somehow blackmailing or persuading a human to act alongside it?? Is that AI anymore or is that just a schizophrenic who thinks the computer is talking to him?)