Also, the ultimate monopolist would not play by the formal rules of the game. He would make the rules so simple, that now he indeed can formally derive all truths and exploit these.
Also, the ultimate monopolist would not play by the formal rules of the game. He would make the rules so simple, that now he indeed can formally derive all truths and exploit these.
More-or-less this. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to drop one of my favourite quotes, because I can't help it:
"The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles."
-- Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence