What "sci-fi baggage"? "Intelligence explosion" was first described by I.J. Good, a mathematician. von Neumann described singularity as a result of acceleratin

What "sci-fi baggage"? "Intelligence explosion" was first described by I.J. Good, a mathematician. von Neumann described singularity as a result of accelerating technical progress. He's also a mathematician, not a sci-fi author, although he was a participant in a sci-fi-like plot of secret project building a bomb more powerful than any chemical bomb...