Marcus Hutter

And there's this saying, you never understand really things, you just get used to them.

And...

I think I got pretty used to cellular automata.

So you believe that you understand now why this phenomenon happens.

But I'll give you a different example.

I didn't play too much with Converse Game of Life, but a little bit more with fractals and with the Mandelbrot set and these beautiful patterns.

Just look, Mandelbrot set.

And well, when the computers were really slow and I just had a black and white monitor and programmed my own programs in assembler too.

Assembler, wow.

Wow, you're legit.

To get these records on the screen and it was mesmerized and much later.

So I returned to this every couple of years and then I tried to understand what is going on.

And you can understand a little bit, so I tried to

derive the locations, you know, there are these circles and the apple shape, and then you have smaller Mandelbrot sets recursively in this set.

And there's a way to mathematically, by solving high order polynomials, to figure out where these centers are and what size they are approximately.

And by sort of mathematically approaching this problem, you slowly get a feeling of

why things are like they are.

And that sort of isn't, you know, first step to understanding why this rich phenomenon.

at the fractals?

Well, in principle, yes.