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FOOM here refers to the Yudkowsky-Hanson debate about hard takeoff (some other comments here are confused). https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/the-hanson-yudkowsky-

• mkl 3y ago
  Your comment doesn't really help. Nothing there seems to explain the term "FOOM". More searching suggests it doesn't actually stand for anything and shouldn't be capitalised: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom#Noun. (Though ChatGPT seems happy to make up definitions: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/12bisxu/what_does_foom_stand_for_who_coined_this_term/ https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/12bisxu/what_d...)
  • cubefox 3y ago
    FOOM is a different term for hard takeoff: > RSI [recursive self-improvement] is the biggest, most interesting, hardest-to-analyze, sharpest break-with-the-past contributing to the notion of a "hard takeoff" aka "AI go FOOM", but it's nowhere near being the only such factor. The advent of human intelligence was a discontinuity with the past even without RSI... https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tjH8XPxAnr6JRbh7k/hard-takeoff https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tjH8XPxAnr6JRbh7k/hard-takeo... > A hard takeoff (or an AI going "FOOM") refers to AGI expansion in a matter of minutes, days, or months https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-takeoff https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-takeoff
    • mkl 3y ago
      Yes but those both incorrectly imply it's an acronym yet don't expand it, just furthering the mystery.
      • cubefox 3y ago
        Yeah, I think the term should be retired. Hard takeoff or fast takeoff is much more descriptive.