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Re:The Map Is Not the Territory (2015) by setgree on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:29PM (#23501566)
Two great illustrations of this concept from literature come to mind:

* Borges's 'On Exactitude in Science' [0] about a map that is as large and as precise as the territory, which renders it useless;

* the wonderful Eschaton scene in Infinite Jest [1], with Pemulis screaming: "It’s snowing on the goddamn map, not the territory, you dick!

This point gets made enough over time that one suspects it's an enduring trait of our cognition to mistake the two. It certainly comes up when people present and talk about epidemiology models.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I -- I think this Decembrists music video does Eschaton wonderfully.

Re:The Map Is Not the Territory (2015) by umvi on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:53PM (#23505180)
Yeah but with the advent of computers you can have a map as large and precise as the territory... just keep zooming in until the scale is 1:1
Re:The Map Is Not the Territory (2015) by Thorrez on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:35AM (#23507333)
I think the best example of the map being the territory is videogames. The map file might literally be the source of truth of what is on the territory.
Re:The Map Is Not the Territory (2015) by goatlover on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:54PM (#23506617)
Assuming you have perfect real-time knowledge of the territory to model which the computing hardware can support.
Re:The Map Is Not the Territory (2015) by setgree on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:12PM (#23506425)
And would this be useful as a map?
Re:The Map Is Not the Territory (2015) by suryabeep on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:53PM (#23504699)
I saw the title to this post and immediately thought of these two things. I clicked on the comments, and you've already named them. What great writers!