Judea Pearl's self-deprecating joke: 'I even remember things that never happened'
yudapearl · x · 2026-09-17
Turing Award winner and causality pioneer Judea Pearl shares a self-deprecating joke: a friend praised his "fantastic memory — you even remember things that never happened," to which he replied these are "the sweetest memories." A witty moment playing on his own lifetime of work on counterfactuals.
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