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Lumifer comments on Completeness of simulations - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 15 April 2014 05:01:18PM -1 points [-]

the map must be smaller than the territory

I don't see why this is so.

If we understand "smaller" as "less complex" then the claim is that a model must be less complex than reality which it represents. That doesn't look true to me.