Foomflops: Three Decades of AI Predictions
About this timelineFollow each prediction from its original source through its deadline and resolution. Every prediction and chapter has a permanent, shareable page with citations.
- ▪About this timelineFollow each prediction from its original source through its deadline and resolution.
- ▪Every prediction and chapter has a permanent, shareable page with citations.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,928 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | foomflops |
| Canonical URL | https://foom.hyperplex.org/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:51:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-07T05:55:41.719Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-07T05:55:41.719Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 4amZ4Syc2RUN · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
About this timelineFollow each prediction from its original source through its deadline and resolution. Every prediction and chapter has a permanent, shareable page with citations. ChaptersChapter 01: Extropiansmid-1990s – 2000 — When transhumanism met mailing-list accelerationismChapter 02: SL4 / Plan to Singularity1999–2000 — Shock Level Four and open-source seed AIChapter 03: Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence2000–~2012 — From 'we will build Friendly AI' to early catastrophic risk warningsChapter 04: Overcoming Bias / LessWrong / Rationality community2006–2012 — Debugging humanity, one very long blog post at a timeChapter 05: MIRI: Research2013–2021 — those who can't build, alignChapter 06: MIRI: Advocacy2022–2025 — those who can't align, sabotageChapter 07: When…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at foomflops.
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