What are some scientific discoveries of the last 20 years that aren’t getting enough attention?
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Lots of causal inference work was tested at scale in private areas, EG Facebook. Some of those folks have moved onto academia (
, @deaneckles). (This is my rough impression from being social with Dean. Does that line up with what you may know better?)
I just mean: causal inference doesn't seem to me to be in a mature form, no more than, say, probability theory was before Kolmogorov 1933 (say). Similarly, neural nets are used at scale in lots of companies, yet we know almost nothing about them & are decades away from doing so
