timtyler comments on Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives

[timtyler]

What can Pearl’s formalism accomplish, that earlier logics could not? As far as I can tell, “Bayes nets” just means that you’re going to make as many conditional-independence assumptions as you can. But nothing changes about the logic.

I am not sure. I haven’t got much from Pearl so far. I did once try to go through The Art and Science of Cause and Effect—but it was pretty yawn-inducing.