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Race #2391

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Official speed 134.29 wpm (49.50 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 18, 2019 7:58:29pm UTC
Race Finish March 18, 2019 7:59:19pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 2)
Opponents 1. deroche1 (145.52 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 217.10
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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.