wedrifid comments on Mental Models - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2010 04:51:44AM 0 points [-]

I took it to be more specific. A reference to the way humans actually build and internally represent the abstractions that they use as a map.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 29 March 2010 05:28:43AM 1 point [-]

I don't think I'm really clear on what sort of map would not constitute a mental model.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 March 2010 05:52:30AM 2 points [-]

Say... one represented as a lookup table the size of Jupiter, for example. We don't think like that.

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