Judea Pearl's Caltech talk: Can Computers Have Free Will?
yudapearl · x · 2026-09-27
Turing Award winner Judea Pearl shared his Caltech talk "Can Computers Have Free Will?" The post responds to Adam Safron's critique of Sam Harris's free-will argument: Safron calls it a confidently asserted category error, "not even wrong." Causation doesn't cross ontological levels, and for causal analyses involving level-crossing, macro-level coarse grainings can have greater predictive power and channel capacity for communicating information about a system.
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