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Re:Counterfactuals are not causality by nimithryn on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:02AM (#27969458)
I will say that while I think this article doesn’t give a good treatment of counterfactuals - the “I can offer infinite counterfactuals so counterfactuals aren’t useful” argument is a kind of intellectual nihilism I don’t really buy - I think at its core this article is really just arguing that we should pose forward facing solutions when we encounter bugs, rather than explanations. That proposition seems fine to me.

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