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TofuLover ◴[] No.45100241[source]
This reminds me of an article I read that was posted on HN only a few days ago: Uncertain<T>[1]. I think that a causality graph like this necessarily needs a concept of uncertainty to preserve nuance. I don't know whether this would be practical in terms of compute, but I'd think combining traditional NLP techniques with LLM analysis may make it so?

[1] https://github.com/mattt/Uncertain

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9dev ◴[] No.45100291[source]
Right. The first example on the site shows disease as a cause, and death as an effect. This is wrong on several levels: There is no such thing as healthy or sick. You’re always fighting off something, it just becomes obvious sometimes. Also, a disease doesn’t necessarily lead to death, obviously.
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1. kaashif ◴[] No.45100409[source]
Since you're always going to die, the problem is solved - the implication is true by the right side always being true, and the left side doesn't matter.
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2. 9dev ◴[] No.45100594[source]
Then it’s correlation instead of causation and the entire premise of a causation graph is moot.