Mmm, I love this idea! Clear write up! Something I’ve never thought about, but did from your answer is that “wow does that mean that human knowledge is a smoot

Mmm, I love this idea! Clear write up! Something I’ve never thought about, but did from your answer is that “wow does that mean that human knowledge is a smooth function?” That’s such an interesting statement to think about what that means. Regarding You can't generate the output of the inverse in stages, because the bit-sensitivity makes it nigh impossible to say you're meaningfully getting closer to the correct answer. That’s where I’m thinking maybe you could pair it (AI) with one of those statistical solvers for hash functions that tries to exploit correlations and differentials to try, even a tiny bit, to break that symmetry and get a little bit of incremental knowledge about: “are you closer or not?” I think if you could get even a tiny tiny edge then AI could be one way that you could maximize that advantage. Maybe, I don’t know how tho.