Artificial Fun: Mapping Minds to the Space of Fun

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between different types of minds and the subset of activities they find engaging or fun, aiming to map how minds access the 'fun space' within the vast potential activity space.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for understanding how various minds relate to the 'fun space' and discusses the accessibility of non-boring activities for different mind types.

Findings

Mapped the relationship between mind types and fun space accessibility

Identified factors influencing non-boring activity engagement

Proposed a theoretical model for fun space mapping

Abstract

Yampolskiy and others have shown that the space of possible minds is vast, actually infinite (Yampolskiy, 2015). A question of interest is 'Which activities can minds perform during their lifetime?' This question is very broad, thus in this article restricted to 'Which non-boring activities can minds perform?' The space of potential non-boring activities has been called by Yudkowsky 'fun space' (Yudkowsky, 2009). This paper aims to discuss the relation between various types of minds and the part of the fun space, which is accessible for them.