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MrMind comments on Problems with learning values from observation - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: capybaralet 21 September 2016 12:40AM

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Comment author: MrMind 26 September 2016 01:57:00PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. Pearl's "Causality" talks at length about this sort of things, and what data can and cannot distinguish between causal correlation. There's even a Sequence post about this exact topic.