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CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web

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229 points geetee | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 05:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kruffalon ◴[02 Sep 25 13:12 UTC] No.45102675[source]▶
I read it as "casual" rather than "causal", got very dissapointed while reading the article!

An inventory of casual knowledge would be really fun, although it's hard to think what it would consist of now that I think about it...

There is this concept of "hidden knowledge" about all the things you know at work that no one really thinks about is knowledge so it's hard to let newcomers know about it.

But that does sound different than "casual knowledge", and so does "trivia".

Oh well!

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1. aleatorianator ◴[02 Sep 25 14:58 UTC] No.45103965[source]▶
it's as simple as precisely describing "common sense"
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2. kruffalon ◴[02 Sep 25 17:49 UTC] No.45106584[source]▶
Yes, that very simple task :D

But I also wonder if that is actually an equivalent.

I think of "common sense" as think you should know to function well in your current society.

I really don't know what "casual knowledge" would mean. In my head it's some kind of low stakes knowledge for everyday life (but more 'useful' than trivia).

Maybe the order is "common sense", "casual knowledge" and trivia?