Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Open Thread September, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 29 September 2010 11:56:13PM 1 point [-]

From the linked article:

It is certainly worth considering the possibility that there is no global element in the Universal Sheaf of Theories.

This sounds like a blatant map/territory confusion. Maybe we haven't found a single theory that applies to all domains. That is, we may have to use multiple inconsistent maps, at least for now. But the territory doesn't refer to our maps to figure out what to do. The territory just does its thing.