I opened up Michael Levins most recent paper and he is talking about learnable novelty, an idea I have recently been thinking about and even started a research project about (curious learners)

This is empowering. A piece of data that my non-reinforced intuitions about what is interesting seems to be in the right direction

I am so far behind (in knowledge, degrees, experience, capital) in some sense. But in another sense I am right there, at the frontier, finding non trivial structure! How exciting