> very clever > ideal > all human knowledge > genuinely intelligent > allow AI but not cheating Those all all vague, hand-wavey concepts; open to disagreem

> very clever > ideal > all human knowledge > genuinely intelligent > allow AI but not cheating Those all all vague, hand-wavey concepts; open to disagreement, and in some cases might turn out not to exist or make sense. Entire research careers have been spent trying to even define these terms, let alone implement them. Focusing on compression of a particular chunk of Wikipedia eliminates all of that, and gives us a precisely measurable quantity. Is it a perfect defininition of intelligence? No; it was never meant to be. Is it a runnable, measurable, comparable experiment? Yes.