+1 would read this post
The point (of my piece) is not to criticize EY, who I don’t consider significant, but the map/territory metaphor, which is much more widespread than LWism. This bit isn’t about maps, so it’s not relevant to this particular essay.
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Mutual information is *also* unworkable as a general theory of representation, but it’s a different one that would need a different critique.
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Representationalists reliably do a Gish Gallop whenever you point out that the theory of representation they are using doesn’t work, and seamlessly switch to a different one. There’s elebenty nine of them, and it’s well understood how each fails, but need 1000 pages for all
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