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Genuinely trying to understand.

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[–] Cherubin0@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You cannot find the causality without the agent manipulating the environment. Getting causality from observational data alone is impossible.

[–] poitrenaud@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can according to Pearl :)

[–] relevantmeemayhere@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think I’ve seen pearl say something like that

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/384330/is-causal-inference-only-from-data-possible. Here’s a post about why casual effects from data alone are not possible