Cyan comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 04 February 2010 07:06:44PM 2 points [-]

If I'm not mistaken, in the Pearlian view of causality, if the universe is viewed as deterministic then it does not make sense to talk about causing a rock to be moved from here to there; an intervention or surgery has to happen from outside the system being modeled.