You expect every blog post to find the earliest relevant paper to cite, just so one could look at the year (without reading said paper - which would have made clear that the connection isn’t recent) to assess novelty? I don’t think that’s reasonable.

It’s a blog post. If it was, say, a peer reviewed paper by Hinton or LeCunn that fails to cite Schmidhuber, that would be reasonable criticism in my opinion. (Spoiler: they fail to cite him)

At least since the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...

That compression and prediction are deeply connected is obvious from simply considering how compression algorithms work.

Nothing about the concept of "intelligence" is nearly as well defined as the other two, nor as well agreed upon.