Math is harder to MITM than science.
Mathematical claims can be independently reproduced on anyone's computer, while hard-to-reproduce science has to be taken on faith.
As such we should reduce as much as possible to hashed, timestamped, verifiable math.
Normally we don't think of "math" and "science" as being in tension. But it is true that math > science > religion in terms of rigor...and reproducibility.
Billions of phones means anyone can now independently reproduce any mathematical statement. But not all scientific ones.
This suggests that we want to reduce as many assertions as possible to mathematical rather than merely scientific statements.
There's actually much that can be done here using NLP, public datasets, reproducible research, and the ledger of record concept.
Science is how we understand the *natural* world. But math is perhaps even more useful in the constructed digital worlds that we spend more and more of our time in.
With >50% of waking hours spent in front of a screen, much more of people's daily experiences become amenable to cryptographic verification.
Everything that passes in front of you on a screen was at least stored on a computer, if not generated there.
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