Re:Collecting All Causal Knowledge
by Amadiro on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:17AM
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It's even worse than that, because the way they extract the causal link is just a regex, so
"vaccines > autism"
because
"Even though the article was fraudulent and was retracted, 1 in 4 parents still believe vaccines can cause autism."
I think this could be solved much better by using even a modestly powerful LLM to do the causal extraction... The website claims "an estimated extraction precision of 83% " but I doubt this is an even remotely sensible estimate.
"vaccines > autism"
because
"Even though the article was fraudulent and was retracted, 1 in 4 parents still believe vaccines can cause autism."
I think this could be solved much better by using even a modestly powerful LLM to do the causal extraction... The website claims "an estimated extraction precision of 83% " but I doubt this is an even remotely sensible estimate.