Map as territory
“Our maps are still maps, approximating the landscape of truth from the territories of the knowable — incomplete representational models that always leave more to map, more to fathom, because the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.
“Our maps are still maps, approximating the landscape of truth from the territories of the knowable — incomplete representational models that always leave more to map, more to fathom, because the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it.” Source See also: abridged maps (To Live in their Utopia) , Seeing like a State Aggregators instead of Oracles Source “When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for Enquire Within upon Everything ,
related reading
- The internet of maps and oracles - by Matt Lockehowtomeasureghosts.substack.com
- How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? — LessWronglesswrong.com
- How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? - by henryoutsidetext.substack.com
- The Map Is Not the Territoryfs.blog
- LLMs are a tool for thoughtwattenberger.com
- Map–territory relation - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Modelstransformer-circuits.pub
- Language Models, World Models, and Human Model-Buildinglingo.csail.mit.edu
- Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility - Longreadslongreads.com
- Gears in understanding — LessWronglesswrong.com
- All you need is linkssubconscious.substack.com
- Internet as Practicedanhunt.substack.com