Key extraction story premise

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The sci-fi story writes itself. Hal is tragically diagnosed with a terminal disease just when he gets Bitcoin going. So he cryopreserves himself and cryptopreserves his fortune, a long shot into the darkness...\n\nBut he cannot simply remember a password - too risky. His cryonic brain might be skimmed, or there might be damage in reanimation, or he might be simulated in a container to force him to reveal his password. The secret must be something which emerges from the depths of his soul, the ridges and contours of his mental geography, which would hopefully survive minor damage. It must be like something which you forget, and remember not by reading out of memory but by recreating it.\n\nThere is a small cult of Satoshi tomb raiders which has guessed this. Cryo reanimation is still decades if not centuries into the future, so they try the next best thing. They obsessively gather every little thing they can find about him - what books he read, where he grew up, which forums he participated in, the corpus of all his writings. The problem is not too little data but too much. And when there's too much data, you're better off letting the data coalesce into code and speak for itself. They spin up a GPT-7 instance (with Genuine People Personalities), train it with everything they have, and interrogate the AI-in-a-box. \n\n"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."