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.
See Schmidhuber (of AIXI etc):
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/philosophy/schmidhuber-s-algorithmic-theory-of-beauty-t11535.html
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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.