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23 Post author: So8res 01 May 2015 11:11PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 May 2015 02:46:14AM 3 points [-]

Were you trying to write about psychology or AI? For psychology, you're quite correct, but most naive folk-theories don't make this mistake anyway (because they mistake map for territory, of course). For AI, you're glossing over the yet-to-be-done work of actually designing algorithms that deliberately enforce a correspondence between map and territory with respect to their goals.