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Judea Pearl writes about these news: https://twitter.com/yudapearl/status/1447596402670903304?t=XHzJvBgAXE6c8EBZ0Aj6pw&s=19 https://twitter.com/yudapearl/status

Judea Pearl writes about these news: https://twitter.com/yudapearl/status/1447596402670903304?t=XHzJvBgAXE6c8EBZ0Aj6pw&s=19 https://twitter.com/yudapearl/status/1447596402670903304?t=X... Edit: downvotes suggest some context may be needed. Pearl win the Turing award for casual inference but has been critical of the current Nobel recipients' methods.

bthallplz 5y ago
I'm curious to know what he means by that their work > overlook[s] the two Fundamental Laws of causal inference.
- sjg007 5y ago
  The two things that have to hold are: 1. The law of Counterfactuals and 2. The Law of Conditional Independence You can find preprints from Pearl online or even some presentations that cover these definitions. His books as well. I don't know how this applies to the work by the economists. I think Gelman at Columbia talks about Pearl and SCMs and the whole thing.