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morelisp on July 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: We're not Platonists, we've just learned the bitte...

Somehow the rationalist community started at empty platitudes like "correlation is not causation" yet has ended up at substantive yet amazingly wrong conclusions like "correlation is identity", amazing turn, I gotta say I did not see it coming.

thebooktocome on July 25, 2023 | [–]

I’m frankly surprised Judea Pearl’s name didn’t come up in this article, they love waving him around at times like this.

philovivero on July 25, 2023 | [–]

But correlation is correlation. At least, for most people's definitions of the word.

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