Puns and wordplay are excellent training in staying aware of the map-territory distinction. cc
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I posted ten puns on twitter in the hope that one would go viral. Unfortunately no pun in ten did.
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Had not really thought of that. Maybe also explains why the cryptic crossword is also so correlated with interesting thinking
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All humor consists of finding edge cases in your theories (about how the world works, or what's going to happen in the story), and we enjoy it because identifying map/territory confusions is evolutionarily adaptive
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