the first book (and, admittedly, the only one i’ve read thus far) is called map and territory, <\/strong>and this blog post will be all about that metaphor.<\/p>\n from the moment we enter schooling age, we’re shown pictures of the world – galaxies, our solar system, planets, stars, moons, the earth, different continents and countries and other known territories that have been neatly mapped out for us on a 2-dimensional plane. we can see… everything. or can we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n that is a world map, right? great.<\/p>\n can you find iceland? or madagascar? or sri lanka, norway, mongolia?<\/p>\n you can’t. they’re simply not there, nowhere on the map to be found, so they must not exist. at least, that’s what most people have been conditioned to think.<\/p>\n map and territory combats this idea, pointing out that just because something isn’t perceived doesn’t mean it’s not there. we have a warped mental image of what we have been told, and through rational thinking and processes, we have to come to a conclusion that combines both what we know for a fact and what we have been told.<\/p>\n the idea of map-to-territory correspondence is quite important when applied to the real world – we have to match what we believe to what is true.<\/p>\n short blog, i know, but eleizer yudkowsky goes way more in depth to rationality in his book, that i think everyone should at least skim in their free minutes. worth the read \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" preface: if my friend finds this, i will simply \u2728pass away\u2728, because i have spent the last 6 months clowning him for being so passionate about this book. and i refuse to admit that i’m in love with it (the book, not the friend). rationality from ai to zombies is a series of books (each … Continue reading “rationality, and why you should never clown your literate friends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10390,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/world-map-1024x610.jpg\")
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