# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1366513551 0
# Node ID baa6194752f45e122f804f3e65ce0e1ed428a94f
# Parent  8d2aa8256786720bcfa68c03f394354c68c2290f
add some thoughts about the singularity.

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+#+title: The Singularity might be Understandable after all.
+#+author: Robert McIntyre
+#+email: rlm@mit.edu
+#+description: 
+#+keywords: 
+#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
+#+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
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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.
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