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. 2023 Oct 10:46:e332.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23001231.

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

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

Peter DeScioli. Behav Brain Sci. .

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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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