SilasBarta comments on Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives - Less Wrong
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Grr! That was my first suggestion!
Not that weird, actually. I think you can do that by building a probabilistic twin network. See the good Pearl summary, slide 26. Instead of using it for a counterfactual, surgically set a different node in each subnetwork, and also the probabilities coming from the common parent (U in slide 26) to represent the probability of each subnetwork being the right one. Then use all terminal nodes across both subnetworks as the outcome set for calculating probability.
Though I guess that amounts to what you were planning anyway. Another way might be to use multiple dependent exogenous variables that capture the effect of cutting one edge when you thought you were cutting another.
No problem, just make sure to link this discussion.
*clicks first link*
And I said that was more or less right, didn't I? ie, "what I attempt to implement" ~= "innards", which points to "selector"/"output", which selects what actually gets used.
Looking through the second link (ie, the slides) now