FOOM is a different term for hard takeoff: > RSI [recursive self-improvement] is the biggest, most interesting, hardest-to-analyze, sharpest break-with-the-pas

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