AlexMennen 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: beoShaffer 12 October 2012 05:13:10AM 2 points [-]

There may or may not be intervening steps, but if your cousins predictions are accurate we can create causal models that either have predictions->card drawn or card drawn->predictions.

Comment author: AlexMennen 13 October 2012 06:44:32PM 1 point [-]

Or predictions <-- lurking variable --> card drawn.