IlyaShpitser comments on Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 October 2012 10:49AM

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Comment author: gjm 18 October 2012 12:37:06AM 21 points [-]

p(a,b,c) = p(a)p(b)p(c) isn't a statement of uncorrelatedness but of independence. Using the term "uncorrelated" with that meaning might be defensible but probably merits mention as something not-mainstream.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 18 October 2012 12:53:48AM *  2 points [-]

Don't bother, he's "write-only."


edit: There is stuff in the original 'causal diagrams' post from nearly two weeks ago that is factually wrong (not a minor nitpick either), was pointed out as such, and is still uncorrected. "Write-only."