[ExI] Fwd: why?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Free book.  Free shipping.  Rave review by Rafal.

Why is no one wanting this book?

bill w

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 7:03 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> +1 on Pearl although I haven't read his book yet.  Sam Harris has a good
> podcast with him I'd recommend.
>
> Sadly, he's also Daniel Pearl's dad.
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 7:42 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:43 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I bought this book thinking that I could understand it more than it
>>> appears that I can.  It is written by a man who has been in the field of AI
>>> for a long time, and now wants to create a math that does what statistics
>>> cannot do:  answer why.
>>>
>>> The book is The Book of Why:  The New Science of Cause and Effect.  by
>>> Judea Pearl (winner of the 2011 Turing Award)
>>>
>>> Check it out on Amazon.  I will consider requests and send it to
>>> someone who tells me it's in their field.
>>>
>>>
>> ### It's the best book I read last year! Pearl is a genius, he should be
>> much better known. I learned a lot from this book.
>>
>> Rafal
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