Tyrrell_McAllister comments on The Last Number - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 10 April 2010 11:36:07PM *  2 points [-]

Again: What does that mean?

It is meaningful to pose the possibility that our map has a certain very surprising property. In particular, we can consider the possibility that one of our cartography tools, which we thought was very reliable, doesn't behave the way that we thought it did. The story gives one partially-conceived manner in which this could happen.