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If I communicate with you then that's enough to determine data causality, which is a weaker version of scientific causality. That does not mean that you necessa
by threatofrain 4y ago
If I communicate with you then that's enough to determine data causality, which is a weaker version of scientific causality. That does not mean that you necessarily shall do something as a result of my communication, so we shouldn't be talking in terms of you bonking someone with a bat as a result of receiving a communication.
In scientific causality, A shall cause B to the degree to which A is explanatory for B.
- hinkley 4y agoMost of us here are really trying to sort out bugs and data consistency issues. If I’m trying to figure out who deserves the last seat on the airplane or the last item on clearance or whether to charge you an overdraft fee, chronology doesn’t help that much, because I don’t really have one. I have a fiction that looks like one.
- preseinger 4y ago"who deserves the last seat on the airplane" is not resolved by chronology, true, but that is not the question the question is "who reserved the last seat on the airplane" and that question is entirely resolved by chronology
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