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For (ii) what do you use instead of probabilities? And for (iii) what changed for you to think this doesn't improve over time?



Subjective probabilities are based on the model. Increasing observations won't help if you have the wrong model to begin with. So we need causal methods to ask if the model is correct. We also need methods to propose new models or rebuild if it is wrong as well.


For (ii) I'm guessing Pearl's do-calculus, and I agree with sjg007 regarding (iii).


OP was quoting.




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