Is the following a good analogy?
1. The Internet aspires to be neutral infrastructure for communication.
2. Permissionless blockchains aspire to be neutral infrastructure for computation.

Head of research at a16z crypto.
Professor, Columbia University.

I prefer "state machine" over "infrastructure for computation":

- trust-minimized state machine.
- neutral state machine.

Do you find this less/more accurate?

More accurate but way too technical/intimidating for a general audience

Yes, more of a definition than an analogy.