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Ken Stanley: Discovery Without Objectives
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A 92-minute RMIT University seminar in which Ken Stanley argues that setting an objective can block achieving it. He presents objective-less, novelty-driven search as an alternative approach to innovation and discovery, drawing on evolutionary computation.
Cited as a source for the idea that open-ended search can beat objective-driven optimization, though one commenter found parts of it fluffy.
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