There’s a critically important and correct idea in the vicinity of “the map is not the territory,” but I can’t find a non-trivial discussion
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Korzybski coined the phrase, but was cracked, and his discussion veers between trivial and insane
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Yudkowski has a whole “sequence” that is supposedly about it, but never does more than mention it in passing (three time total, by my count)
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To the slight extent that I can guess what Yudkowski was thinking, it’s that the map should be as nearly as poss isomorphic to the territory
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… and the “good idea in the vicinity” is almost exactly the opposite: understanding the map/territory relationship as isomorphism is wrong
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I would like to explain the nearby good idea to rationalists, but they are likely to say “isn’t this just ‘the map is not the territory’?”
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This is always the problem with explaining things to rationalists: they are super-resistant to admitting their ideas are incoherent.
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First you have to do their work for them by developing a rational reconstruction of their sacred verbiage, and THEN point out why it’s wrong
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In extreme cases, you can produce running code that demonstrates they are wrong, and they still won’t admit it. http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/965 …
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I seem to be having a rant.
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