Part of the job of insiders is to protect outsiders from the abstraction leaking. Every insider is an outsider, in a chain of Russian dolls without beginning or end.
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This sounds a little more metaphysical than I was expecting to get when checking my professional water cooler over a quick kebab lunch.
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It's something else I'm worried about, though. If the abstraction isn't sufficiently wrong, it will not be left alone to do its work.
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"It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly." - Josiah Warren
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the map is not the territory
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Isn't this the premise of Dunning-Kruger, the more you learn, the more you discover you don't know.
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I have similar beliefs. Just that I prefer the word “map” over “abstraction”. More user-friendly.
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Corollary of George Box’s “all models are wrong but some are useful”.
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The truth is that all knowledge needs must be an abstraction. That at point of transmission nearly it invariably means a translation into words means that it must be an abstraction of some sort. And the mind simply cannot contain the full, molecular complexity of the subject.
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