Intrinsic evolution and open-endedness
- Evo strategies are powerful, but vulnerable to specification gaming/reward hacking.
- I find intrinsic evolution (selection emerging from the same system that is subject to selection) a promising direction.
- Open-endedness has been broadly defined and often includes selection (Maley 1999), reproduction (, Soros+Stanley 2014, increasing diversity (Maley 1999, ), increasing complexity (Taylor 2015, novelty/surprise (Adams et al 2017, Taylor 2015, Soros+Stanley 2014), and adaptation (Maley 1999, ).
- (Hintze 2019) demonstrated construction of a system that meets technical definitions of open-endedness while being rather boring.
- OE/OE evolution may be one of those 'suitcase words', as M. Minsky would say.
- Arend Hintze's work used Levenshtein distance (sampled) and approximated Kolmogorov complexity with gzip compression.