Meaning my reasoning skills would be advanced by reading something? So I made an error? Yes, I did. That’s the point.
The comment you are replying to is a reductio ad absurdum. I was not endorsing the claim that it follows that a paperclip truck probably overturned. I was showing that logical equivalence is not the same as causal (“counterfactual”) equivalence.
Meaning my reasoning skills would be advanced by reading something? So I made an error? Yes, I did. That’s the point.
FWIW, I understood that you were presenting an argument to criticize its conclusion. I still think that you haven’t read Pearl (at least not carefully) because, among other things, your putative causal diagram has arrows pointing to exogenous variables.
I still think that you haven’t read Pearl (at least not carefully) because, among other things, your putative causal diagram has arrows pointing to exogenous variables.
I puted no such diagram; rather, you puted a logical statement that you claimed represented the decision theory I was referring to. See also my reply here.
More generally, are you interested in increasing your intelligence, or do you think that would be a distraction from directly increasing the number of paperclips?
Meaning my reasoning skills would be advanced by reading something? So I made an error? Yes, I did. That’s the point.
The comment you are replying to is a reductio ad absurdum. I was not endorsing the claim that it follows that a paperclip truck probably overturned. I was showing that logical equivalence is not the same as causal (“counterfactual”) equivalence.
FWIW, I understood that you were presenting an argument to criticize its conclusion. I still think that you haven’t read Pearl (at least not carefully) because, among other things, your putative causal diagram has arrows pointing to exogenous variables.
I puted no such diagram; rather, you puted a logical statement that you claimed represented the decision theory I was referring to. See also my reply here.
I thought you had because you said
I took this to mean that you were treating P ⇔ (Q ⇔ P) and Q as causal networks, but distinct ones.
You also said
I took this to mean that P was an exogenous variable in a causal network.
I apologize for the misinterpretation.
More generally, are you interested in increasing your intelligence, or do you think that would be a distraction from directly increasing the number of paperclips?