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The speaker argues that David Anthony's discovery was not an effortless consequence of logical omniscience; Anthony was a genius who probably considered the problem for years.

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In their words

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“Yeah, so to me, it doesn't seem like he is just kind of sitting there being logically omniscient and getting the answer.”
“It seems like he's a genius.”
“thought about this for years probably at some point like he heard a couple of indian words and a couple of european words”
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