Schmidhuber's 2009 Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity published in Japan

Jürgen Schmidhuber's Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, which links compression progress to beauty, curiosity, art, science, music, and jokes, was published in a Japanese scientific journal in 2009. The post's author noted that the framework was laid out in full formal detail about 15 years earlier. The idea was first proposed by Schmidhuber in the 1990s.