It is Impossible!
Human intellect evolved to solve problems, leading to incremental advancements of knowledge. Note the plethora of innovations that were independently invented simultaneously or nearly simultaneously. Tim Wu has developed this idea in his book about eyeballs: _The Attention Merchants_. Industrial Psychologists have understood something like this for a long time: error rates in assembly lines increase over the shift. There are limits. Remember the unsinkable ship and prisons from which it would be impossible to escape?
Why is it a surprize that major online databases are hackable?
I take it that the human brain lacks the capacity to understand any system sufficiently well to foresee any or all possible shortcomings of that system.
What are the philosophical ramifications of my statement?
Case in Point: Intel;s CPUs. Meltdown and Spectre.
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