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Also, humans or not, in any given system, there will be people in position to analyze and take advantage of subtle / indirect / emergent effect of that system. Be it better brains, more funding to try strategies, it will happen.


Is that a bad thing? Maybe that's how systems become more efficient.


Depends on which side you're on. The big smart may again take advantage of the rest.


The eternal challenge - improving efficiency in systems while ensuring that those efficiency gains are fairly distributed among participants...


Now in that view, it's possible that crypto currencies and/or Blockchainish project may raise the floor for everybody (in the case absolutes matter).


Ah the story of organic matter.




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