By Isaac Liao and Albert Gu In this blog post, we aim to answer a simple yet fundamental question: Can lossless information compression by itself produce intelligent behavior? The idea that efficient compression by itself lies at the heart of intelligence is not new (see, e.g., Hernández-Orallo & Minaya-Collado, 1998; Mahoney, 1999; Hutter, 2005; Legg & Hutter, 2007). Rather than revisiting those theoretical discussions, we make a practical demonstration instead. In this work, we give evidence t...