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What the hell is FOOM?

• MattPalmer1086 10mo ago
  Usually refers to a sudden increase in AI intelligence to super intelligence, i.e. the singularity. Basically an exponential increase in capability.
  • austinjp 10mo ago
    It may also be a reference to the (comparatively ancient) "Pentium go F00F" bug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
  • nineteen999 10mo ago
    Usually? How many times has that happened?
• AlexCoventry 10mo ago
  Explosive ignition of a fire.
• cubefox 10mo ago
  It was Yudkowsky's colloquial term for hard takeoff: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tjH8XPxAnr6JRbh7k/hard-takeoff https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tjH8XPxAnr6JRbh7k/hard-takeo...
• layer8 10mo ago
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom#English