Error comments on Skill: The Map is Not the Territory - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2012 09:59AM

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Comment author: thomblake 04 October 2012 01:59:09PM 33 points [-]

"grass is green" and "sky is blue" are always funny examples to me, since whenever I hear them I go check, and they're usually not true. Right now from my window, I can see brown grass and a white/gray sky.

So they're especially good examples, as people will actually use them as paradigms of indisputably true empirical propositions, and even those seem almost always to be a mismatch between the map and the territory.

Comment author: Error 22 March 2013 11:34:23AM 4 points [-]

I wish I could upvote this twice, just for pointing out an obvious error that I've never previously twigged on. I shall try to keep it close to the front of memory the next time I feel really certain about something.