
B03 - Brain of the Firm, Chapter 3
General Intellect Unit
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The Limits of Understanding
Instrumentalism: You're not trying to find real reality, you'll never find real reality. There's a fundamental upper limit on how accurate our measurement is going to be. All models are wrong, but some are useful. And I think that kind of gets back to what I was saying previously in another discussion about the lack or gap in understanding we usually attribute to the sort of a numinal character of the thing in itself.
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