Document comments on Litany of Instrumentarski - Less Wrong

1 Post author: shminux 09 April 2013 03:07PM

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Comment author: Document 11 August 2013 09:26:52PM *  1 point [-]

At the risk of dogpiling:

So, if it is true in reality that your writing "here be dragons" on a map results in someone encountering a dragon when traveling to the mapped area...

Comment author: shminux 11 August 2013 10:12:16PM *  -1 points [-]

It happens. Probably not with dragons, but with placebo and with many other things where the nonlinear second order effect map->reality is ignored in this simplified map/territory distinction. So why make the distinction?

Comment author: Document 11 August 2013 10:21:21PM *  0 points [-]

It is true in reality that it happens...

(Sorry.) To answer your question: for the times when it doesn't happen? I wasn't actually planning to join a debate; you might find it more productive to ask one of the people who gave more in-depth replies.