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Racer Chris (chriiis)
Race Number 29
Date Mon, 1 May 2017 21:16:32 +0000
Speed 60 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.3%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents donrocks211 (1st place) mrbguy (2nd place) pierre1 (3rd place)

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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.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (book) by Alan M. Turing (see stats)