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It doesn’t matter whether the Kentucky Derby is core to reality. The point is it is part of reality. If you want to model reality with 100% accuracy, you need to know about the Kentucky Derby. The author is arguing that models are converging on something close to the platonic ideal representation. So, a perfect model with perfect translatability would in fact be able to communicate the concept of a four legged land animal (named after a being capable of impossible feats) that attempts to be faster than other animals to win a reward for a rider on its back. Whether the platonic representation hypothesis is correct or not and whether our models will ever actually get that good are different questions.