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Racer yeste28 (yeste28)
Race Number 937
Date Wed, 8 Feb 2017 12:11:05 +0000
Speed 56 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.1%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents goldensporkle (1st place) the_log (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)