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     1.4 +#+title: The Singularity might be Understandable after all.
     1.5 +#+author: Robert McIntyre
     1.6 +#+email: rlm@mit.edu
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    1.13 +People like Ray Kurzeweil think that eventually, it will become
    1.14 +impossible to understand what the entities of the future will be
    1.15 +thinking, and their actions will be inscrutable, since their minds are
    1.16 +so much more complicated than ours. The idea is that the Minds of the
    1.17 +future will be to us as we are to ants.
    1.18 +
    1.19 +But if you search through the space of all possible programs with the
    1.20 +goal of coming up with one that describes something in the world, you
    1.21 +will find some common patterns no matter what type of mind you
    1.22 +have. Things like addition, concatentation, recursion, and induction
    1.23 +are all easy and immediate to find, and you will find them almost no
    1.24 +matter what way you search through program-space. In the world of
    1.25 +stories and language, these translate to simple patterns like revenge,
    1.26 +phyrric victory, success, failure, etc. The pricinple of simplicity
    1.27 +must be a driving, universal aesthetic force, since without it Minds
    1.28 +wouldn't be able to manange their own hardware and software, and would
    1.29 +not be able to grow.
    1.30 +
    1.31 +So, far in the future, when synthetic life rules the stars, it is
    1.32 +likely that their behavour will still be describable in the simplistic
    1.33 +terms of the human stories of old.
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