Why greatness cannot be planned by Kenneth O. Stanley

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• gavinray · 2026-02-19 in Can random experimental choice lead to better theories?

  > "We find that agents who choose new experiments at random develop the most informative and predictive theories of the world. " There's a neat book about this: "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (The Myth of the Objective") https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25670869-why-greatness-c... Incidentally, the author works at OpenAI these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Stanley