Judea Pearl: logic and causal discovery are the two pillars of Western science
yudapearl · x · 2026-10-05
Conjecture Institute advisor Judea Pearl highlighted two major advances of Western science: the development of logic and the realization that we can discover causal relationships. Inspired by Turing, he has been trying to combine the two in his causal AI research.
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