fubarobfusco comments on I Stand by the Sequences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 15 May 2012 07:01:12PM 6 points [-]

My current most serious quibble with the Sequences is that they do not make it clear that the map/territory meme is just a model. A very useful one in many contexts, but still only a model.

Are you claiming that the map/territory distinction is in the map, not in the territory?

One case where it fails miserably is QM, leading to the wasteful discussions of MWI vs collapse (which one is "the territory"?).

Neither one. They're both maps. The territory is that stuff out there that surprises us sometimes.