Aadil (aadil0392)

Race #2060

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Official speed 52.04 wpm (127.75 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 21, 2018 7:42:14am UTC
Race Finish January 21, 2018 7:44:22am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 84.14
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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.