Somewhat tangentially, I’ve been working on-and-off on a post that says “I don’t understand the map-vs-territory distinction” for about five years now. I’ve failed to finish it because I don’t even understand what I don’t understand… It’s been “nearly done” that whole time tho
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Maybe this idea about “entanglement” and “mutual information” could focus the criticism a bit? This seems to underpin Yudkowsky’s general conception of representation.pic.twitter.com/i0uqS3McCh
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I don’t think he has a coherent theory. He’s got a swirl of bits of theory-stuff he picked up from reading cogsci unsystematically, and hasn’t realized they are mutually contradictory and can’t be assembled into a workable overall account.
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Ohh, I would really like to read this post on map / territory. Cosign.
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