Solomonoff Induction is just about prediction. It models a forecasting agent that observes a stream, and emits probabilities of the next symbol. It doesn’t do anything else. Complaining that it can’t create its own experiments seems rather futile. Of course it can’t—it is a forecaster. Real agents do more than just forecast, of course, but that isn’t a criticism for forecasting, or the idea of a forecaster.
Solomonoff Induction is just about prediction. It models a forecasting agent that observes a stream, and emits probabilities of the next symbol. It doesn’t do anything else. Complaining that it can’t create its own experiments seems rather futile. Of course it can’t—it is a forecaster. Real agents do more than just forecast, of course, but that isn’t a criticism for forecasting, or the idea of a forecaster.