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Grognor comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 2 - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 20 April 2012 07:38PM

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Comment author: Grognor 21 April 2012 07:42:12AM *  14 points [-]

It's not an acronym. It's an onomatopoeia for what happens when an AI self-recursively improves and becomes unimaginably powerful.

(A regular explosion goes BOOM; an intelligence explosion goes FOOM.)

I added it to the jargon page.