It is cool to think of text without spaces as analogous to a unique number. As in each of Shakespeare’s works or any unique block of text is a number with no spaces.

The “better” the text the more directly it speaks to that which resonates with beauty inside us, or put another way, the shorter the distance to some aspect of our human “kernel.”

Much like bitcoin’s difficulty target selects for smaller and smaller numbers, human culture (ideally) selects for art with shorter and shorter distances to the essential human ethos.

The hash function is the artist, art is the output of the hash function, humans’ attraction to beauty is the difficulty target, culture is the difficultly adjustment, attention (mapped across the ages) is the block reward, memes are bitcoin ect..