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Andy Matuschak
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As an adjunct to his new map/territory essay,
@Meaningness
wrote a great blog post introducing his readers to
@withorbit
and describing how it might help people build meta-rationality. His descriptions of Orbit are in many ways much better than mine! metarationality.com/now-with-orbit
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Andy Matuschak
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This essay beautifully unspools the limitations of the classic map/territory metaphor. I'm extra excited because this essay integrates @withorbit to help you internalize its ideas. But it's a philosophy essay—very unlike Quantum Country—so its prompts are quite different. twitter.com/Meaningness/st…
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Andy Matuschak
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I'm particularly tickled by his description of how the prompt-writing process impacted the prose during the editing process. I had a similar experience with "How to write good prompts." I don't understand this very well yet!
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Because the medium is so unfamiliar, I expect each author will need to write an introduction like this, framing Orbit's role for their readers. Will be interesting to see the different angles each author brings. And perhaps eventually such intros will no longer be necessary.
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