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@jessica if you mean using to pretend your analysis can assess in a reproducible way then no, you should have used a different study design.

In the nicest possible way, if you're posting this because you're actually experiencing a crisis then I apologize for being flip and please tell me if I can help you in some way.

#mendelianrandomization #causation

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@br00t4c will be asked to retake the course, it's pretty clear that her () has arrows pointing in the wrong directions!

#mtg #causation #directedacyclicgraph #dag #epidemiology #statisticalmethods

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@ninokadic

And more fun, too. Philosophy of Mind is great. I am also very partial to reading a bit of on things like , , , ...

#metaphysics #ethics #morality #causation #hume

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🤔 "causal information at decision time can lead to less accurate choices in domains that relate to existing knowledge".

Possible explanations: (a) fluency effect or (b) expertise reversal effect.

doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-020

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Alun Kirby · @cyanotype
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The good people at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory are holding a workshop on causation in memory.

Do memory traces exist? How would / do they work? What about reconstructing memories? What do we need in order to remember something?

Excellent speakers.

No registration required.

FREE access via Zoom!!!

phil-mem.org/events/2023-causa

#philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #causation #memorytraces #unversitegrenoblealps #engram #memory #OnlineWorkshop

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Mike Lensi · @philbro
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@seanmcarroll of all the work / papers mentioned in the podcast, I'm most excited to get to this one by Jessica Flack royalsocietypublishing.org/doi
"Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism"

#supervenience #downwardcausation #causation #coarsegraining #emergence

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Benjamin Han · @BenjaminHan
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10/end

[4] linkedin.com/posts/benjaminhan

[5] Zhijing Jin, Jiarui Liu, Zhiheng Lyu, Spencer Poff, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea, Mona Diab, and Bernhard Schölkopf. 2023. Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation? arxiv.org/abs/2306.05836

#paper #nlp #nlproc #codegeneration #causation #causalreasoning #reasoning #research

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[2] Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Fazl Barez, Ioannis Konstas, and Shay B. Cohen. 2023. The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail: Language Models do not Recognize Identifier Swaps in Python. arxiv.org/abs/2305.15507

[3] Emre Kıcıman, Robert Ness, Amit Sharma, and Chenhao Tan. 2023. Causal Reasoning and Large Language Models: Opening a New Frontier for Causality. arxiv.org/abs/2305.00050

#paper #nlp #nlproc #codegeneration #causation #causalreasoning #reasoning #research

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[1] Xiaojuan Tang, Zilong Zheng, Jiaqi Li, Fanxu Meng, Song-Chun Zhu, Yitao Liang, and Muhan Zhang. 2023. Large Language Models are In-Context Semantic Reasoners rather than Symbolic Reasoners. arxiv.org/abs/2305.14825

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The results? Both and perform worse than BART fine-tuned with MNLI, and not much better than the uniform random baseline (screenshot).

#gpt4 #alpaca #paper #nlp #nlproc #codegeneration #causation #causalreasoning #reasoning #research

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In a more recent work [5], the authors tested LLMs on *pure* tasks, where all variables are now symbolic (screenshot 1). They constructed systematically a dataset starting by picking variables, to generating all possible , to finally mapping all possible statistical . They then “verbalize” these graphs into problems for LLMs to solve for a given causation hypothesis (screenshot 2).

#causalinference #causalgraphs #correlations #paper #nlp #nlproc #causation #causalreasoning #research

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