Once you understand natural orders, it becomes more clear why Bitcoin's ledger encodes incredibly valuable economic information that would be lost when zeroing it out. It's the same reason AI research has hit a roadblock: you cannot simply set up a neural net and feed it examples to work on. To be useful toit needs to go through the same kinds of trials and tribulations that individual humans (and human societies) go through in developing their patterns of behavior in such a way as to carefully optimize their life for greatest satisfaction (or their society for greatest prosperity) in the environment we face. Not only that, it likely needs to come with somewhat the same instinctive utility function and other presets and biases human babies have, which were developed through the evolutionary process within this environment.Both altcoiners and many AI researchers fall prey to this blank slate fallacy, neglecting the immense information encoded in those presets in the human brain and in the ledger of a mature economy. (See this post linked in OP: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=678866.5