Pfft comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 02:11AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 October 2012 04:19:35AM 1 point [-]

How is causation as manipulability "Pearlian"? Pearl's whole point is that it's possible to determine causality without manipulating.

Comment author: Pfft 13 October 2012 05:09:55PM 0 points [-]

But first you need to know what causality is. While the general idea that "causality is about manipulations" was around before Pearl, he certainly popularized it, and his causal bayesian networks and the do-calculus made it something that could be studied mathematically.