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VAuroch comments on Personal examples of semantic stopsigns - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: VAuroch 22 September 2014 08:31:24AM *  -1 points [-]

From what I've seen of cafeterias on large college campuses, it isn't actually hyperbole to say that "all the local cafeterias are isomorphic". They're technically distinct, but under a transformation that preserves all relevant properties, they can all be mapped to each other; they are the same up to isomorphism.