learnmethis comments on Causal Diagrams and Causal Models - Less Wrong

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Comment author: learnmethis 15 October 2012 03:54:00PM 0 points [-]

Causal knowledge is required to ensure success, but not to stumble across it. Over time, noticing (or stumbling across if you prefer) relationships between the successes stumbled upon can quickly coalesce into a model of how to intervene. Isn't this essentially how we believe causal reasoning originated? In a sense, all DNA is information about how to intervene that, once stumbled across, persisted due to its efficacy.