I am not really sure what this post is arguing against, or who it is arguing against
Tbh reacting initially to this Twitter poll seen by over 20,000 people. But it’s used fairly widely in my experience.
I haven’t seen anyone actively advocate for using “foom” and I’ve most recently only seen it used by people not actually very central to the EA, Rationality or AI Alignment communities.
Tbh reacting initially to this Twitter poll seen by over 20,000 people. But it’s used fairly widely in my experience.
Fwiw it seems to be used many many times on this forum
It’s in the title of an [e-book promoted by MIRI](The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate eBook )
Yudkowski uses the term in a recent podcast interview
But, to be fair, he didn’t use the term in his Time Magazine interview