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author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Mon, 26 May 2014 02:19:52 -0400 |
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1 #+title: The Singularity might be Understandable after all.2 #+author: Robert McIntyre3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu4 #+description:5 #+keywords:6 #+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org7 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org10 People like Ray Kurzeweil think that eventually, it will become11 impossible to understand what the entities of the future will be12 thinking, and their actions will be inscrutable, since their minds are13 so much more complicated than ours. The idea is that the Minds of the14 future will be to us as we are to ants.16 But if you search through the space of all possible programs with the17 goal of coming up with one that describes something in the world, you18 will find some common patterns no matter what type of mind you19 have. Things like addition, concatentation, recursion, and induction20 are all easy and immediate to find, and you will find them almost no21 matter what way you search through program-space. In the world of22 stories and language, these translate to simple patterns like revenge,23 phyrric victory, success, failure, etc. The pricinple of simplicity24 must be a driving, universal aesthetic force, since without it Minds25 wouldn't be able to manange their own hardware and software, and would26 not be able to grow.28 So, far in the future, when synthetic life rules the stars, it is29 likely that their behavour will still be describable in the simplistic30 terms of the human stories of old.