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Re:Counterfactuals are not causality by np_tedious on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:23PM (#27967929)
I think those counterfactuals can be the most useful explanation, while not being the direct cause.

"why did the disk fill up" would be most directly explained by the most recent write. That's not useful though. It doesn't really matter what the last write was.

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Re:Counterfactuals are not causality by bb88 on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:57PM (#27968138)
"The disk filled up because the website was trying to save a configuration backup to disk." -> Stop backing up configurations.
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