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  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #5490.

Neil replies:

Programming syntactic variations is easy. The problem is conjecturing which variations are explanatorily relevant given the problem and our background explanatory knowledge. The epistemological work includes conjecturing the relevant search space itself. Otherwise I can generate billions of mutations without discovering whether changing some feature destroys the explanation or merely changes its wording.

#5490​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 15 hours ago

That’s why I said it’s fine to prompt the user for creative input if necessary, within reason.