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Comment by hinkley

2 months ago

“The map is not the territory.”

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falcor84  2 months ago

I've actually been thinking about this recently in the context of video games and virtual worlds in general, where when we speak about "the map", we are literally referring to the (virtual) territory. The more we digitize things, the more this distinction breaks down.

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