Re:A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”
by tu7001 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:16PM
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I would strongly recommended this podcast.
Re:A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”
by terminlvelocity on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:02PM
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I really enjoyed hearing Judea Pearl being interviewed, as I am most of the way through "The Book of Why" and have learned a lot from it. I did feel that Sam steered the conversation a bit too much towards his favorite topics (like free will) and wish there was a bit more discussion of philosophy/history of science, but it was still a great listen.
I first learned of Judea Pearl by stumbling across the transcript of a talk he gave while I was researching DAGs: http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/LECTURE/lecture_sec1.htm . The way he grounded his talk in the history of thought hooked me, and the talk serves as a good general overview for those deciding if they want to pick up the book.
https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/
#164 - Cause & Effect - A Conversation with Judea Pearl
August 5, 2019
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Judea Pearl about his work on the mathematics of causality and artificial intelligence. They discuss how science has generally failed to understand causation, different levels of causal inference, counterfactuals, the foundations of knowledge, the nature of possibility, the illusion of free will, artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness, and other topics.
Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and philosopher, known for his work in AI and the development of Bayesian networks, as well as his theory of causal and counterfactual inference. He is a professor of computer science and statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. In 2011, he was awarded with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science. He is the author of The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (coauthored with Dana Mackenzie) among other titles.
Twitter: @yudapearl