Yeah, this is some good stuff. I was hoping someone might comment on it. It reminds me a lot of the work that Dave Ackley was interested in regarding the robustness/fault tolerance of algorithms like the bubble sort (vs the brittleness of qsort, for instance).
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/beyond-efficiency/ Personally, It seems fruitful to study the *goal directedness* of an algorithm in this behavioral psych kind of way. I would be interested to hear what EricC or Nick thinks. I would be interested to hear what anyone here thinks.
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