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"Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white.
A map works by being in correspondence with the territory.
There is nothing magical about the correspondence. It is completely reducible to physics.
Do you not understand what Eliezer is saying, or are you just disagreeing with it?
As said in another comment, if preventing tangential arguments about the nature of truth is the intended point of the essay, I can certainly get behind the intent, if not the execution.