This is brilliant. The whole causal inference thing is something I only came across after university, either I missed it or it is a hole in the curriculum, because it seems incredibly fundamental to our understanding of the world.
The thing that made be read into it was a quite interesting sentence from lesswrong, saying that actually the common idea that correlation does not imply causation is wrong. Now it's not wrong in the face-value sense, it's wrong in the sense that actually you can use correlations to learn something about causation, and there turns out to be a whole field of study here.
The thing that made be read into it was a quite interesting sentence from lesswrong, saying that actually the common idea that correlation does not imply causation is wrong. Now it's not wrong in the face-value sense, it's wrong in the sense that actually you can use correlations to learn something about causation, and there turns out to be a whole field of study here.