Spencer Becker-Kahn

Oct 18, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Eli Tyre |Spencer Becker-Kahn |Mo Putera

Judea Pearl is a famous researcher, known for Bayesian networks (the standard way of representing Bayesian models), and his statistical formalization of causality. Although he has always been recommended reading here, he's less of a staple compared to, say, Jaynes. So the need to re-introduce him. My purpose here is to highlight a soothing, unexpected show of rationality on his part. One year ago I reviewed his last book, The Book of Why, in a failed submission to the ACX book review contest.