Manfred comments on Causal graphs and counterfactuals - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 30 August 2016 11:38:26PM 0 points [-]

This sounds like a question of how you're choosing to define a causal node. Is it something that's a fixed function of its parents? In which case your hypotheses about the function from A to B are hypotheses over different causal graphs. Or should the function from parents to node be a parameter that you represent inside a causal graph? In which case you need some representation of this distribution.

Either way, I agree that you need more than what you started with to capture the counterfactuals you're thinking of here.