shminux comments on Litany of Instrumentarski - Less Wrong
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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?
(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.