#+title: The Singularity might be Understandable after all.

 #+author: Robert McIntyre

 #+email: rlm@mit.edu

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 People like Ray Kurzeweil think that eventually, it will become

 impossible to understand what the entities of the future will be

 thinking, and their actions will be inscrutable, since their minds are

 so much more complicated than ours. The idea is that the Minds of the

 future will be to us as we are to ants.

 

 But if you search through the space of all possible programs with the

 goal of coming up with one that describes something in the world, you

 will find some common patterns no matter what type of mind you

 have. Things like addition, concatentation, recursion, and induction

 are all easy and immediate to find, and you will find them almost no

 matter what way you search through program-space. In the world of

 stories and language, these translate to simple patterns like revenge,

 phyrric victory, success, failure, etc. The pricinple of simplicity

 must be a driving, universal aesthetic force, since without it Minds

 wouldn't be able to manange their own hardware and software, and would

 not be able to grow.

 

 So, far in the future, when synthetic life rules the stars, it is

 likely that their behavour will still be describable in the simplistic

 terms of the human stories of old.