4 ms·
When did foom become a word?
by boredumb 3y ago
When did foom become a word?
- oefnak 3y ago[2008](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/the-hanson-yudkowsky-ai-foom-debate https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/the-hanson-yudkowsky-ai-foom-d...)
- mkl 3y agoIt's been an onomatopoeic word from the sound a big fire starting makes for a long time. It seems to have come into use for AI over a decade ago: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/ai-go-foomhtml https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/ai-go-foomhtml, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom
- boredumb 3y agoI see. it's like, Vrrroom? The takeoff sound for the AI blast off? Back under my rock I go