Someone needs to write a book on algorithmic information theory for philosophers

Even leaving aside all the substantive metaphysical assumptions it seems to involve (structure or pattern is prior to object, information is ontologically fundamental, or whatever), the formalism alone is one of the most significant metaphysical advances in centuries.

Plus, I think many of these assumptions, or the questions to which they're meant to be answers, are probably just the inevitable ephemera of the collision between two world-pictures, and would either get clarified or fade away once AIT-inspired metaphysics were to get going.

And it'd elevate the realism-antirealism debates significantly and give new rigour to discussions of socially constructed, conventional, and emergent phenomena, provided it's employed judiciously of course.