Morendil comments on Causal Diagrams and Causal Models - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 12 October 2012 05:23:40PM 12 points [-]

However, "weight" and "exercise level" are temporally extended processes, which makes acyclicity a strong assumption.

This is a hugely important point in practical, everyday reasoning about causality. Feedback loops abound.