[FRIAM] Judea Pearl: Book of Why

[Steven A Smith]

Glen -

I'm in the midst (early part) of Judea Pearl's "Book of Why".  

I had a vague memory of his earlier book: "Causality" having been
referenced if not discussed on this list.   Searching the archives, I
discovered what I considered to be quite a Pearl (NPI) circa 2013.  In
this long chain, you recommended Pearl's "Causality" which I now wish I
had followed up on then.  

http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/beyond-reductionism-twice-td7582273i20.html#a7582308

Among the many gems in the thread were the voices of two of our deceased
members, Doug Roberts and Tory Hughes.   Doug coined one of his classic
lines about (paraphrase) "being violently disinterested in the
philosophy of causation" (or complexity or agent-based-model-design).

After Nick's recent "violent disinterest in the Cult of Feynman" and in
particular to any quote that might imply that birds are (paraphrase)
"not first-class-citizens who would in fact be interested in
ornithology, if they were given access to it", my eyes caught on your
own quote (in 2013) of S. Ulam:

    "Talking about non-linear mathematics is like talking about non-elephant
    zoology." -- Stanislaw Ulam

- Steve (176)

>> Unfortunately, after a couple of attempts to read it, I couldn't understand anything in your post except this part. My previous post was just under 300 words. So, I decided to try to make the next one under that mark as well.
>>
>> On 4/18/20 1:22 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
>>> From whence (or wherest?) did you get your 300 word target? 
> you might not be alone in that...  perhaps it was just gibberish.  And likely more than three hundred words of it.
>
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