Huh. My impression was always that "universal prediction" got replaced by various branches of statistics, ML theory, and probability theory, each considering mo

Huh. My impression was always that "universal prediction" got replaced by various branches of statistics, ML theory, and probability theory, each considering more specific questions that used to fall under a single umbrella? Perhaps a best comparison is "cybernetics", which doesn't get funding these days except, of course, for the billions upon billions of dollars thrown at robotics, self-driving, factory automation, and so on.