Just because it is a nice meme I want to throw in Schmidhuber's work on (do not treat this comment as serious except you are Schmidhuber himself):

* Gödel Machine (2006-2007) [1]

* Optimal Ordered Problem Solver (2002) [2]

* Meta-Learning and Artificial Curiosity (1990s onward) [3]

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2505.22954v3

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207097

[3] https://evolution.ml/pdf/schmidhuber.pdf

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