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> Causal graphs are only circular if you are sloppy with time! We do not know if LSD in 1968 caused hippies in 1969, but we can rule out that hippies in 1969 ca
by mistermann 4y ago
> Causal graphs are only circular if you are sloppy with time! We do not know if LSD in 1968 caused hippies in 1969, but we can rule out that hippies in 1969 caused LSD in 1968.
One hippie in 1986 could have ~dreams of a massive population of newly minted hippies in 1969 (in this case: virtual hippies), and that dream could motivate them to manufacture and distribute LSD in pursuit of that goal.
Lots of causality is due to false beliefs, and at the cognitive level distortion of time may be just another distortion. What time "is" is to some degree a bit hand wavy in the first place, isn't it?