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Computational theories should be made with natural language instead of meaningless code.

Peter DeScioli
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
The target article claims that we should speak in code to understand property, because natural language is too ambiguous. Yet the best computer programmers tell us the opposite: Arbitrary code is too ambiguous, so we should use natural language for variables, functions, and classes. I discuss how meaningless code makes Boyer's theory too enigmatic to properly debate.
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