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by thr3000 553 days ago
The ideal heuristic is to only deduplicate towards more orthogonality.

Suppose you started from first principles and navigated down the ontology tree taking one of the shortest paths (well, shortest-ish since it's a hard problem that'll burn up too much time otherwise.) Would you encounter your deduplicated function on the way? If not, it's making it worse.