Yeah, that seems to be the most important remaining difference now that Atticus is also using multiple interventions at once. Though I think the metrics are also still different? (ofc that’s pretty orthogonal to the main methods)
My sense now is that the types of interventions are bigger difference than I thought when writing that comment. In particular, as far as I can tell, causal scrubbing shouldn’t be thought of as just doing a subset of the interventions, it also does some additional things (basically because causal abstractions don’t treeify so are more limited in that regard). And there’s a closely related difference in that causal scrubbing never compares to the output of the hypothesis, just different outputs of G.
But it also seems plausible that this still turns out not to matter too much in terms of which hypotheses are accepted/rejected. (There are definitely some examples of disagreements between the two methods, but I’m pretty unsure how severe and wide-spread they are.)
Yeah, that seems to be the most important remaining difference now that Atticus is also using multiple interventions at once. Though I think the metrics are also still different? (ofc that’s pretty orthogonal to the main methods)
My sense now is that the types of interventions are bigger difference than I thought when writing that comment. In particular, as far as I can tell, causal scrubbing shouldn’t be thought of as just doing a subset of the interventions, it also does some additional things (basically because causal abstractions don’t treeify so are more limited in that regard). And there’s a closely related difference in that causal scrubbing never compares to the output of the hypothesis, just different outputs of G.
But it also seems plausible that this still turns out not to matter too much in terms of which hypotheses are accepted/rejected. (There are definitely some examples of disagreements between the two methods, but I’m pretty unsure how severe and wide-spread they are.)