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bwfan123today at 5:54 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Sometimes, yeah. I don't think we're disagreeing

I would disagree. Formalism and precision have a critical role to play which is often underestimated. More so with the advent of llms. Fuzziness of natural languages is both a strength and weakness. We have adopted precise but unnatural languages (math/C/C++) for describing machine models of the physical world or of the computing world. Such precision was a real human breakthrough which is often overlooked in these debates.