# Map and Territory, Yudkowsky

> Source: https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/map-and-territory/ · Updated: 2024-09-24 · Tags: book, notes

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Map and Territory is the first set of posts in [The Sequences](https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality) by Eliezer Yudkowsky, here bundled into an ebook, available for free [here](https://intelligence.org/2018/12/15/announcing-new-raz/).

The book is divided into 4 sections.

- [Predictably Wrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM):
	- [Biases: An Introduction](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/ptxnyfLWqRZ98wnYi)
	- [Scope Insensitivity](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/2ftJ38y9SRBCBsCzy)
	- [The Martial Art of Rationality](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/teaxCFgtmCQ3E9fy8)
	- [Availability](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/R8cpqD3NA4rZxRdQ4)
	- [What's a Bias?](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/jnZbHi873v9vcpGpZ)
	- [Burdensome Details](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/Yq6aA4M3JKWaQepPJ)
	- [What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/RcZCwxFiZzE6X7nsv)
	- [Planning Fallacy](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/CPm5LTwHrvBJCa9h5)
	- [Why Truth?](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/YshRbqZHYFoEMqFAu)
	- [Feeling Rational](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/SqF8cHjJv43mvJJzx)
	- [The Lens That Sees Its Flaws](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/46qnWRSR7L2eyNbMA)
- [Fake Beliefs](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re)
	- [Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A)
	- [A Fable of Science and Politics](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF)
	- [Belief in Belief](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/CqyJzDZWvGhhFJ7dY)
	- [Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/fAuWLS7RKWD2npBFR)
	- [Professing and Cheering](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/RmCjazjupRGcHSm5N)
	- [Belief as Attire](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/nYkMLFpx77Rz3uo9c)
	- [Pretending to be Wise](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/jeyvzALDbjdjjv5RW)
	- [Applause Lights](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/dLbkrPu5STNCBLRjr)
- [Noticing Confusion](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK)
	- [Focus Your Uncertainty](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/GJ4ZQm7crTzTM6xDW)
	- [What is Evidence?](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/6s3xABaXKPdFwA3FS)
	- [Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/fhojYBGGiYAFcryHZ)
	- [How Much Evidence Does It Take?](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/nj8JKFoLSMEmD3RGp)
	- [Einstein's Arrogance](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7)
	- [Occam's Razor](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/f4txACqDWithRi7hs)
	- [Your Strength as a Rationalist](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/5JDkW4MYXit2CquLs)
	- [Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/mnS2WYLCGJP2kQkRn)
	- [Conservation of Expected Evidence](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/jiBFC7DcCrZjGmZnJ)
	- [Hindsight Devalues Science](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/WnheMGAka4fL99eae)
	- [Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/sSqoEw9eRP2kPKLCz)
	- [Expecting Short Inferential Distances](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/zpCiuR4T343j9WkcK/p/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w)
- [Mysterious Answers](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL)
	- [Fake Explanations](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/fysgqk4CjAwhBgNYT)
	- [Guessing the Teacher's Password](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/NMoLJuDJEms7Ku9XS)
	- [Science as Attire](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/4Bwr6s9dofvqPWakn)
	- [Fake Causality](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/RgkqLqkg8vLhsYpfh)
	- [Semantic Stopsigns](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/FWMfQKG3RpZx6irjm)
	- [Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/6i3zToomS86oj9bS6)
	- [The Futility of Emergence](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/8QzZKw9WHRxjR4948)
	- [Say Not "Complexity"](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/kpRSCH7ALLcb6ucWM)
	- [Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/rmAbiEKQDpDnZzcRf)
	- [Lawful Uncertainty](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/msJA6B9ZjiiZxT6EZ)
	- [My Wild and Reckless Youth](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/DwtYPRuCxpXTrzG9m)
	- [Failing to Learn from History](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/97Y7Jwrzxyfzz3Ad2)
	- [Making History Available](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/TLKPj4GDXetZuPDH5)
	- [Explain/Worship/Ignore?](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/yxvi9RitzZDpqn6Yh)
	- ["Science" as Curiosity-Stopper](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/L22jhyY9ocXQNLqyE)
	- [Truly Part Of You](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/fg9fXrHpeaDD6pEPL)
- [The Simple Truth](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5uZQHpecjn7955faL/p/X3HpE8tMXz4m4w6Rz)

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