hardmaru Explains Twitter's Logo Via Schmidhuber's Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity
hardmaru · x · 2026-10-06
hardmaru invokes Schmidhuber's Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity—compression progress as the basis of beauty, curiosity, art, science, and jokes—to interpret Twitter's logo, alongside his 1994 Low-complexity Art. He notes the framework was published in a Japanese journal in 2009.
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