WIP - Expression Type Hierarchy
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The ambiguity can be constrained by obeying precise syntactic constructs, but then, you have created a formal language
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
High-level PLs are more abstract than assembly, but equally formal. I think moving any kind of logic to natural language represents a different kind of leap than we took by moving from low-level PLs to high-level ones.

NL is inherently ambiguous. Even a word like ‘or’ can mean either OR or XOR
February 2, 2026 at 12:40 AM
February 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I’m very skeptical this can even happen. Formal logic and formal language in general relies on precise syntax

Indirectly related to LLMs, and good chance you’ve already read this, but I like Dijkstra’s essay: www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of "natural language programming". (EWD 667)
www.cs.utexas.edu
February 1, 2026 at 11:52 PM
You can now find domain
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 AM
The library will become the interpreter ;) and then bootstrap from there! Or that’s my plan anyway
January 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Yes but other way! Hurtboxes take the damage
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
All hurtboxes are hitboxes, but not all hitboxes are hurtboxes.

Hurtboxes receive damage
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Someone will write a generalized NtoN+1 based on induction and we’ll solve Python
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Really cool
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
One more mystery down, hopefully not much more than one to go..
September 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Aha, I got it :) you can perform such a shift arithmetically! An interesting thing is that right-shifting a transfinite expression reduces its order, so this operation is a rightshift on finites, but a rightshift plus a compensation on transfinites, to make up for the order decrement
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It takes a lot of mental effort to consider but it doesn’t seem insurmountable either. You just have to preserve
1. Order (ordinality)
2. Sequence of cardinalities under ceiling division

I know that none of this makes sense without context but oh well
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM