Request: Looking for a terse name for a physics/math/crypto abstraction describing the principle that it is easy to extract arbitrary/unguessable bits from the environment.
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
What about something from Ergodic Theory? Or the Poincaré Recurrence Theorem? Following Wikipedia links along these lines shows some promising candidates.
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Replying to @FoolOfGod
Ooh nice, “Ergodic Hypothesis” on Wikipedia seems really close
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Replying to @BagelDaughter @FoolOfGod
Think I found the nugget I wanted! https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005382 … Found in the footnotes for wiki’s Self-organized Criticality
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