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Vaniver comments on The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty on Less Wrong - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 19 November 2015 04:11:48PM 1 point [-]

Is "what you focus on is not what you would benefit most from focusing on" a special case of "the map is not the territory"?

Is the contribution that states its futility ever expressed?

Sometimes. I remember thinking about that when writing my last post, but I'm not sure how much that made it into the post.