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		abalaji on May 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critic... I might be wrong but x -> y (read as x implies y) is something taught in discrete mathematics classes. I'm not too sure what he means by mathematics does not have notation for causality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_conditional

bsaul on May 20, 2018 [–]

A barometer changing implies the storm is coming. It doesn’t however causes the storm to come.

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