Interestingly, all envogue tech of today like ML and Bitcoin converge around this topic. In essence, PoW is just (partly) figuring out the seed of a RNG, which in return is compression at its finest.<p>Thus, the author has a point in saying &quot;Basically, once we’re done w&#x2F; statistics, we’re done. But this mentality may be one of our biggest faults&quot;. Even seemingly random data can be represented by incredibly short descriptions (as in MDL).
I&#x27;m fascinated by compression since I was a child hacking in x86 assembler.