[kvakil]

In addition, even if a normal number was used, it's far simpler to describe the data by just using a single number alone. For example, a binary encoding of the data (perhaps using a prefix-free code). Using a normal number and two "positions" is just more complicated.

[mc3]

Nonetheless, it's freaky that our deepest secrets are encoded into pi. If pi is normal.

[cygaril]

https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library...

[tanelpoder]

Also, there will be multiple copies of data, some uncompressed, some compressed in different formats like gzip, lzo, etc.

[contravariant]

And each copy will occur infinitely often.

[mc3]

And man there is a hell of a lot of fake news in there.