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CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web

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229 points geetee | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 05:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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rwmj ◴[02 Sep 25 09:37 UTC] No.45100832[source]▶
Isn't this like Cyc? There have been a couple of interesting articles about that on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474 "Obituary for Cyc"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40069298 "Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project"

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1. HarHarVeryFunny ◴[02 Sep 25 11:40 UTC] No.45101740[source]▶
Seems like a subset of CYC - attempting to gather causal data rather than declarative data in general.

It's a bit odd that their paper doesn't even mention CYC once.