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