gwern comments on Things you are supposed to like - Less Wrong

68 Post author: PhilGoetz 22 October 2011 02:04AM

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Comment author: gwern 22 October 2011 12:16:58AM 3 points [-]

Aesthetics is pretty reliable among humans, but what about in minds-in-general?

See Schmidhuber (of AIXI etc):

Comment author: [deleted] 22 October 2011 03:24:57PM *  0 points [-]

I'm watching his '09 Singularity Summit talk now. Is there a reason I shouldn't consider it massively important?

Comment author: gwern 22 October 2011 07:56:03PM 3 points [-]

Is there a reason I shouldn't consider it massively important?

It's been a while since I read his writing on this topic, but I remember thinking that it is a cute idea, yet I really wanted experimental backing (which ought to be easy to do) and the generated stuff didn't seem very pretty.