Ha, we've had this discussion back with Anderson's "End of Theory" [1] Until we can come up with a way to automate large-scale robust causal inference, there's

Ha, we've had this discussion back with Anderson's "End of Theory" [1] Until we can come up with a way to automate large-scale robust causal inference, there's no end of theory. Because of course everything is correlated with everything in real life, the problem is isolating reasonable relations/networks/models of causal effects. [1] https://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/ https://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/