Curiosity = desire to better compress knowledge by finding regularities others missed. "This drive maximizes interestingness, the first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility, that is, the steepness of the learning curve." Explains drive to learn in infants & expertshttps://twitter.com/doriantaylor/status/1016193565234421760 …
Irregularities are a sign that an existing compression is wrong and you can find a more regular form to compress