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		lifeisstillgood on July 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engine... But ... Only if a programmer has coded the other solution into the algorithm OR if the ML is able to distinguish between a correlation and a causation. Before Looking for Black Swans look for Xmas Turkey's.

TeMPOraL on July 6, 2014 [–]

> if the ML is able to distinguish between a correlation and a causation

Of course it is. You can get the causation structure out of a correlative dataset with some basic Bayesian math.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ev3/causal_diagrams_and_causal_model...

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