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add some thoughts about the singularity.
| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:05:51 +0000 |
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| 1 #+title: The Singularity might be Understandable after all. | |
| 2 #+author: Robert McIntyre | |
| 3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu | |
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| 6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org | |
| 7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org | |
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| 10 People like Ray Kurzeweil think that eventually, it will become | |
| 11 impossible to understand what the entities of the future will be | |
| 12 thinking, and their actions will be inscrutable, since their minds are | |
| 13 so much more complicated than ours. The idea is that the Minds of the | |
| 14 future will be to us as we are to ants. | |
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| 16 But if you search through the space of all possible programs with the | |
| 17 goal of coming up with one that describes something in the world, you | |
| 18 will find some common patterns no matter what type of mind you | |
| 19 have. Things like addition, concatentation, recursion, and induction | |
| 20 are all easy and immediate to find, and you will find them almost no | |
| 21 matter what way you search through program-space. In the world of | |
| 22 stories and language, these translate to simple patterns like revenge, | |
| 23 phyrric victory, success, failure, etc. The pricinple of simplicity | |
| 24 must be a driving, universal aesthetic force, since without it Minds | |
| 25 wouldn't be able to manange their own hardware and software, and would | |
| 26 not be able to grow. | |
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| 28 So, far in the future, when synthetic life rules the stars, it is | |
| 29 likely that their behavour will still be describable in the simplistic | |
| 30 terms of the human stories of old. |