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Research2026-07-24 · source-backed
Ryan Cotterell argues that the claim human processing difficulty is an affine function of token surprisal "under some language model" is tautological absent rational grounding, because the freedom to pick the model makes it unfalsifiable. That targets a large body of work using LLM perplexity as a proxy for human reading difficulty. If you cite surprisal as cognitive evidence, you now owe an argument for why that specific model.
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