I think the original formulation is "make illegal states unrepresentable" from Yaron Minsky: https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml/ https://blog.janestreet.c

I think the original formulation is "make illegal states unrepresentable" from Yaron Minsky: https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml/ https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml/ and https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml-revisited/ https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml-revisited/ (or maybe there are older sources than 2010?)