Nov 07
The Model Matching Problem
I saw this post on X that mind fucked me for about twenty minutes. It's this diagram showing how Alice has a model of Bob, Bob has a model of Alice, but then there's this deeper layer where Alice has a model of Bob's model of her, and Bob has a model of Alice's model of him. This recursive nightmare where nobody's actually interacting with reality, they're all interacting with their models of models. And buried in there somewhere is the actual person, getting smaller and smaller as the models...
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