<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Apr 17, 2020, at 10:48 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The book is The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. by Judea Pearl (winner of the 2011 Turing Award)</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Check it out on Amazon. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I will consider requests and send it to someone who tells me it's in their field.</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It's on my reading list, though not so much because of the AI stuff but because of the causality stuff...</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By the way, if you're interested in causality per se, a great book I have read is Phil Dowe's _Physical Causation_.</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I also recommend _The Oxford Handbook of Causation_. In fact, all the Oxford Handbooks I've read so far have been very helpful and great references. I don't pretend to comprehend them, but they're good to have around.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>