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> And it turns out that a strong positive correlation can be a good place to hunt for possible causality I don't disagree, but I have yet to see a mathematical
by ur-whale 6y ago
> And it turns out that a strong positive correlation can be a good place to hunt for possible causality
I don't disagree, but I have yet to see a mathematically clean definition of "causality".
- lordnacho 6y agoDo you take issue with Pearl?
- ur-whale 6y agoDidn't know about Pearl. Will dive in now, thank you. His intro to the topic bodes well: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/why.html http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/why.html
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThat’s interesting, because causality requires time for the entropy engine to move our reality forward. It’s not clear to me whether mathematical axioms would be outside of entropy driven time, or if the mere presence of operators in sequence requires entropy change to transmit the information and move the calculation forward.