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If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few threads still discernible in the deserts...

如果我们可以把博尔赫斯的一个故事看成是关于仿真模拟的最精当的比喻，那么对我们来说，这个寓言不过是转了一个轮回。

Belarusian cartographers think it is near the town that Russians call Vitebsk. In 1887 in the then Austro-Hungarian empire, geographers erected a monument at Dilove, in what is now the Ukrainian province of Transcarpathia, marking what they reckoned was Europe's real mid-point.

白俄罗斯的地图绘制者们认为它在一个俄罗斯人叫做维帖布斯克的镇上（白俄罗斯语是 Vitsyebsk ）。1887年，，地理学家在当时的奥匈帝国的Dilove建了一座纪念碑，那是现今乌克兰的 Transcarpathia 省，标志着他们所计算出的欧洲的真正中心。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。