rather than this usage being unclear, i think the muddiness is more about the original concept becoming more difficult to reference- it has a name, but that name now refers to a much less subtle concept
Re:Symbolic Regression is NP-hard
by SantalBlush on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:04AM
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I get it, it's like when someone mentions a slippery slope: are they talking about a fallacy, or a surface I can slide down?
> Based on the context
Personally speaking, it's not always easy to tell which "begging the question" someone means from context. I often have to stop and ask "hold on, do they mean the premise assumes the conclusion?" (And all the worse for me if they just mean "brings up the question", because I'll spend a minute making sure I'm not just missing the fallacy).
In that sense, it's not quite the same as "slippery slope," which doesn't get used literally much anyway.
Re:Symbolic Regression is NP-hard
by goolulusaurs on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:23AM
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"assuming the conclusion" is a much better way to refer to the original concept, IMO.
Based on the context, you know exactly which meaning of the phrase is intended here, and it's disengenuous to pretend otherwise. The differences in context between the two meanings make this a non-problem.