Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes

Schmidhuber : https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360

E-ReveranceOct 24, 2026View on HNParent context

Schmidthuber has an answer: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360 For a more practical approach you need to use proxies: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/articles/what-an-automated...

zbyforgotpSep 20, 2026View on HNParent context

Schmidhuber did it first: Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360

rrherrAug 11, 2026View on HNParent context

(Somewhat) related Schmidhuber https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360

fragebogenMar 5, 2025View on HNParent context

Schmidhuber reached your conclusions first. Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360

passion__desireJul 31, 2024View on HNParent context

reminds me of https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360 > I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively…

evertedsphereApr 26, 2023View on HNParent context

If your job is to attract an agent that is playing a careful balance between exploration and exploitation, while on tight computational budget, then you want to attract them with some initial hooks (e.g. bright colors) and appease their computational risk assessment module with…

0xBABAD00CDec 27, 2022View on HNParent context

First, the competition does place a time limit (in fact several resource limits). I agree that it may be too lax to judge consumer-oriented compression algorithms. That is not what this competition is about. The goal is maximizing compression ratio - with the aim of affecting…

parenthesesMar 24, 2021View on HNParent context

There's a paper by Schmidhuber [1] in which he argues, IIRC, that not the surprise as in high or just-right entropy is what satisfies the observer of e.g. art, but the fact that it teaches you a new, previously unknown pattern of regularity about the world which allows you to…

bschneMar 18, 2021View on HNParent context

https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360 Juergen Schmidhuber - Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes (2002)

pizzaOct 9, 2017View on HNParent context

allow me to make your day: - Computational trinitarianism, or how 1.) propositions as types, 2.) programs as proofs, and 3.) the relation between type theory and category theory are one and the same thing [0] - Scott aaronson's excellent "Why Philosophers Should Care About…

pizzaSep 30, 2017View on HNParent context