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http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/nwu/reality_is_arational/
-8 Yet still no one being able to refute my arguments.
It's really silly.
If we lived in the kind of universe where learning didn't help, where drawing more-correct conclusions and fitting your behavior better to the environment didn't help, then evolution and indeed biological life wouldn't work either. The kind of world where maps don't have anything to do with territories is a dead world, one in which there are no maps because becoming a mapper is worthless.
"Every communication is inaccurate" is inaccurate, but more-or-less true. "Every communication is equally inaccurate" is very much le... (read more)