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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 4

    Bertrand Russell: “The law of causation…is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm." Judea Pearl disagrees: The Book of Why is a profound explication of the science of causality.https://nyti.ms/2LQBkay 

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      1. Rob Williams‏ @codeslubber Jun 4
        Replying to @sapinker

        The great thing about that book is it throws out traditional causality but explains why Bayesian Probability is still immensely useful..

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      1.  🧐 AmirSiddiqui  🥃‏ @AmirSymmetry Jun 4
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        Quarter through it ; I’ve rarely felt so wrong 😁

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      2. John Harrington‏ @thebeartiger Jun 4
        Replying to @sapinker

        Popper's answer to the problem of induction is about the best we can do. Truth is contingent, asymptotic, and Bayesian. Objective reality exists, but human minds are incapable of being assured of any but the most trivial truths, and perhaps not even those.

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      2. Joshua Byrd‏ @CaviarEmptier Jun 4
        Replying to @sapinker

        Curious, what was Russell’s preferred explanation if not causation? He doesn’t seem like a Jungian “synchronicity” type of fellow

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      3. James Burnett‏ @james_burnett_ Jun 4
        Replying to @CaviarEmptier

        Possibly: event A doesn't cause event B. Events A and B are just points along a path of things that happen. They are physical manifestations of the playing out of the laws of nature. Possibly.

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      1. Shehryar Piracha‏ @sipiracha Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker what about a more libertarianism view on causality and indeterminism?https://medium.com/@sipiracha/cause-effect-fallacy-5d46a5f4415b …

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      1. Donald Kanye‏ @StraightHand Jun 5
        Replying to @sapinker @benshapiro

        What causation could be attributed to your never being able to comb your hair?

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      1. Reasonable Guy‏ @lovabledork2 Jun 4
        Replying to @sapinker

        As far as the quantum goes, consider the possibility that all times are in superposition of states in the now? That would mean that cause and effect are in superposition. So did your kicking the football cause it to hit the window, or are they in fact simultaneous?

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      1. tony ridler‏ @tony_ridler Jun 4
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        #JustBecause-I'm itchy, doesn't mean I'm not clean🙈🙉🙊

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      1. Canopus‏ @Corpus_Canopus Jun 4
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        Does @sapinker read on Alchemy during his spare time?

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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Jun 4
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        “causal questions can never be answered from data alone.” ... interesting.

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      1. Forfare Davis‏ @Pseudoplotinus Jun 4
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        Forfare Davis Retweeted Steven Pinker

        Kind of enjoying @sapinker's systematic attempt at trying to make everyone forget Wittgenstein happened.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1003656090058481664?s=21 …

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        Steven PinkerVerified account @sapinker
        Bertrand Russell: “The law of causation…is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm." Judea Pearl disagrees: The Book of Why is a profound explication of the science of causality. https://nyti.ms/2LQBkay 
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      1. James Tiberius Stone‏ @Evolving_Ego Jun 4
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        Oooh. Looks good. Thank you for the heads up on this one.

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      1. goblue‏ @giantsfan459 Jun 4
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      2. GiggsBoson‏ @giggs_boson Jun 4
        Replying to @sapinker

        yet non in quantum theory, our most accurate science

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      3. Navid Siami‏ @Navatso_IR Jun 4
        Replying to @giggs_boson @sapinker

        That is not factually true. In Quantum three we see a impossible triad one of which is causality. Some chose to let causality go but it is not definite that it's the right choice.

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      4. GiggsBoson‏ @giggs_boson Jun 4
        Replying to @Navatso_IR @sapinker

        It seems that there are many, many bad choices being made in particle physics in recent decades.

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      5. Navid Siami‏ @Navatso_IR Jun 4
        Replying to @giggs_boson @sapinker

        I'm not aware of the recent advancements in particle physics. But on the edge of Quantum foundations I know that some people have started to question locality. If we drop locality then we can have a causal, realistic, consistent Quantum theory. see work of Spekkens for example.

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      1. andthenwhat?‏ @NWcarol28 Jun 4
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        Purchasing right now......

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