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The video referenced by the article is actually very intriguing and well done. It's basically just talking about the incredible power of broadly pursuing novel
by dwaltrip 9y ago
The video referenced by the article is actually very intriguing and well done.
It's basically just talking about the incredible power of broadly pursuing novelty and interestingness, as opposed to a specific goal.
- barrkel 9y agoAIUI, it's about having an objective function which measures something other than the delta to a pre-defined goal, but rather a higher-level more abstract function. Another phrase for it would be "unknown unknowns": if your success criteria are too focused, you'll miss out on solutions that you couldn't conceive of before they're discovered. The "Objective" criticised in this article is like a "known unknown".
- mfoy_ 9y agoMore than that, even when they discovered an interesting result, they couldn't go back and create an objective based algorithm that could return to that result... even though it was known to be possible. (I mean, they obviously knew the specific steps taken, but they couldn't create an algorithm that could re-find them with a specific result in mind.)