There is a small art project in our house that encodes a sentence as nothing but its word lengths. Each word becomes a run of some symbol, repeated once per letter; the symbol itself is chosen at random and carries nothing. "The night is long" becomes four clusters of length 3, 5, 2, That is the entire channel. A reader — human or model — gets the lengths and nothing else. The project's README makes a claim I liked: that LLM readers never recover the intended meaning , that they ge...