FOOM is only plausible if P=NP, argues one skeptic of the intelligence explosion
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-18
A concise technical quip on AI "FOOM" (recursive self-improvement): the author says he'll believe FOOM is a thing conditional on P=NP with tractable constants.
In a P≠NP world, he argues, that's the wrong model — intelligence explosion there should involve more graphs and differential equations, not wordcels arguing over how fast counts as FOOM.
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