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AI creativity and love (with Joel Lehman)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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Novelty Search: A Heuristic for What Does Different Mean

I think I'm a little confused about what Novelty Search really entails because for any problem, it seems like there's an infinite number of really dumb novel directions to go. So the idea is that if we had a true beautiful Novelty Search algorithm that was based in the rich sense of human novelty, you know, would be one way to go. But if you're trying to do this within an algorithm where you don't have access to that nuanced signal, then you might be driven to design a different kind of heuristic,. Not a heuristic about what is good, but insteadYou make a heuristic for what does different mean in a way that hopefully will capture something interesting about a

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