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Pinker, Peter Marler... and myself... have frequently argued... [that] a significant part of a creature’s innate armamentarium consists... of [innate]... mechanisms... that enables learning.

— Gary Marcus Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)

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