The Shortest Explanation Wins: Solomonoff Induction and the Logic Beneath Intelligence

For more than two thousand years, philosophers have wrestled with the problem of induction: we cannot logically prove that the future will resemble the past, yet every prediction we make - from sunrise tomorrow to the next bridge holding our weight - depends on exactly that assumption. Hume showed the justification is circular. Popper, pragmatists, and statisticians offered patches. None sealed the leak.

Then, in the 1960s, Ray Solomonoff discovered something astonishing: there is a mathemat...