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Official speed | 70.68 wpm (94.06 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | December 3, 2020 2:53:55pm UTC |
Race Finish | December 3, 2020 2:55:29pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (2 of 5) |
Accuracy | 97.0% |
Points | 114.27 |
Text | #3622360 (Length: 554 characters) 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. |