It's similar, but I thought on my first read-through that they weren't quite the same. I read the Systems Reply as "understanding arises ex nihilo in the entire

It's similar, but I thought on my first read-through that they weren't quite the same. I read the Systems Reply as "understanding arises ex nihilo in the entire system"; the LessWrong reply is that "understanding is copied from somewhere else and coded into the system". However, thinking about it for a further ten seconds, I'm not sure the distinction between the two is particularly meaningful.