# The History of the Universe

Author: Zack M. Davis
Originally published: 2013-08-06
Category: philosophy
Tags: intelligence explosion
Canonical URL: https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/Aug/the-history-of-the-universe/

"So, the universe starts out being made out of physics, then turns into game theory as life, then civilization, then artificial intelligence do increasingly _a priori_ improbable things, then turns back into physics again as everyone runs out of negentropy. Poetically speaking."

"Right. Literally, it would just be physics throughout."

"But the poetry pays rent: the more agent-like a process is, the more predictively useful it is to take the intentional stance of talking about what it wants, rather than computing out the physics."