Chase (doublewidesurprise)

Race #1077

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Official speed 62.85 wpm (105.78 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 25, 2020 5:35:58pm UTC
Race Finish August 25, 2020 5:37:44pm UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 5)
Opponents 2. hadestyping_06 (77.97 wpm)
3. peytonk608 (65.20 wpm)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 101.61
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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.