Adele_L comments on Causal Inference Sequence Part 1: Basic Terminology and the Assumptions of Causal Inference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Adele_L 01 August 2014 09:25:26PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for your reply.

At least the way I am conceiving a computation, I can (theoretically) run the same computation with different inputs. So I think a computation would capture that sort of counterfactual information also.

So in LW terms - beware of the mind projection fallacy.