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ironmantissaonApr 2, 2021

Judea Pearl also wrote a great layman book called “The Book of Why” that I highly recommend.

jkhdigitalonJune 15, 2021

Try Judea Pearl’s The Book of Why for an exploration of the formalizations of counterfactual reasoning. I’m not sure what this article’s author is trying to say, so I’ll project and assume that it has something to do with the science of causation.

grphtrdronMay 4, 2021

I would just add that the content of The Book of Why is amazing but damn is the audio book bad.

It might be the worst read book I can think of. I am not even sure why, it just so painful to get through with the way the voice actor speaks.

Hopefully it gets a new rendition at some point in the future.

anotha1onMay 4, 2021

Sadly, social media is the new smoking.

I encourage everyone to read "the book of why" by Judea Pearl. It illustrates how "research" and "studies" were used to sew doubt about the dangers of smoking. That's where we're at with social media, BUT, we have new tools like causal inference that should decrease the length of time we deal with "no link found here" or "correlation is not causation" bs.

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