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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Replying to @Meaningness
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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Replying to @windigo_child
I don’t think so… it’s about representations and reality.
7:12 PM - 18 Jul 2016
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