Comment on Accuracy Versus Winning

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:53:21 GMT

I'm not an epistemical rationalist, I'm an instrumental one. (At least, if I understand those terms correctly.)

That is, I'm interested in maps that help me get places, whether they "accurately" reflect the territory or not. Sometimes, having a too-accurate map -- or spending time worrying about how accurate the map is -- is detrimental to actually accomplishing anything.

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