The bucket diagrams are too coarse, I think; they don’t keep track of what’s causing what and in what direction. That makes it harder to know what causal aliefs to inspect. And when you ask yourself questions like “what would be bad about knowing X?” you usually already get the answer in the form of a causal alief: “because then Y.” So the information’s already there; why not encode it in your diagram?
The bucket diagrams are too coarse, I think; they don’t keep track of what’s causing what and in what direction. That makes it harder to know what causal aliefs to inspect. And when you ask yourself questions like “what would be bad about knowing X?” you usually already get the answer in the form of a causal alief: “because then Y.” So the information’s already there; why not encode it in your diagram?
Fair point.