Perhaps you should link to the article directly. At first I was trying to figure out the connection between densely packed Hitlers and one-line generators. (Edit: My mistake the link was there I just didn't see it)
Also, unless you want to elaborate, maybe this should go into the open thread?
Looks like it. I see it as a promising theory. Weinersmith could have made his point more correct (Ctrl-F "What’s my middle name?") if he had talked about dU as a derivable signal. Calculus would have made the point more succinct, I think.
Then again, I try to think about these things computationally, while Zack is just trying to make a convincing argument.
This is the same as Schmidhuber's compression-based theory of aesthetics, right?
Looks like it. I see it as a promising theory. Weinersmith could have made his point more correct (Ctrl-F "What’s my middle name?") if he had talked about dU as a derivable signal. Calculus would have made the point more succinct, I think.
Then again, I try to think about these things computationally, while Zack is just trying to make a convincing argument.