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My koan answer: a map-territory distinction can help you update in response to information about cognitive biases that could be affecting you. For instance, if I learn that people tend to be biased towards thinking that people from the Other Political Party are possessed by demonic spirits of pure evil, with a map-territory distinction, I can adjust my confidence that Republicans are possessed by demonic spirits of pure evil downwards, since I know that the cognitive bias means that my map is likely to be skewed from reality in a predictable direction.
If you assign a non-infinitesimal probability to this literal case, odds are that your map is so bad, you don't have much to update to begin with.
Yes, I was not being literal.