LumiRay (kazumray)

Race #145

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Official speed 52.58 wpm (126.44 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 3, 2020 5:53:42pm UTC
Race Finish June 3, 2020 5:55:48pm UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 5)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 85.00
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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.