The Singularity Fun Theory

This morning, I found this:

• How much fun is there in the universe?
• What is the relation of available fun to intelligence?
• What kind of emotional architecture is necessary to have fun?
• Will eternal life be boring?
• Will we ever run out of fun?

To answer questions like these… requires Singularity Fun Theory.

• Does it require an exponentially greater amount of intelligence (computation) to create a linear increase in fun?
• Is self-awareness or self-modification incompatible with fun?
• Is (ahem) “the uncontrollability of emotions part of their essential charm”?
• Is “blissing out” your pleasure center the highest form of existence?
• Is artificial danger (risk) necessary for a transhuman to have fun?
• Do you have to yank out your own antisphexishness routines in order not to be bored by eternal life? (I.e., modify yourself so that you have “fun” in spending a thousand years carving table legs, a la “Permutation City”.)

To put a rest to these anxieties… requires Singularity Fun Theory.

I decided that the Singularity Fun Theory was one of those theories that would be just as much fun if I didn't try too hard to understand what it actually means, and, putting a rest to my anxieties, remained quietly thankful that there are people thinking as deeply about the future of fun as Dr. Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.