I think the bigger problem is that while the author assumes that humans cannot understand or control a super intelligent AI, he readily assumes that having escaped the constraints of its human creators the AI will either immediately go on to reward itself with infinite utility and become inert, or aim to infinitely reproduce.
The surety with which the author predicts the outcomes of the super intelligent being modifying its utility function, does not make sense if we assume that we cannot understand or limit its behaviours.
Like under this assumption the AI agents behaviour is by actual definition unpredictable.