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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

by 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.