Counterfactuals

Edited by Raemon last updated 17th Sep 2020

Counterfactual reasoning is about looking at choices you could have made, but didn't.

Counterfactuals are similar to hypotheticals (but tend to focus on choices you could have made, rather than situations you could have been in).

Posts tagged Counterfactuals

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71The Counterfactual Quiet AGI Timeline

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28Auditing LMs with counterfactual search: a tool for control and ELK

Jacob Pfau

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65Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions

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54My Current Take on Counterfactuals

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30The Many Faces of Infra-Beliefs

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Diffractor

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29What are the two contradictory theories of how to evaluate counterfactuals?

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29Agency and the unreliable autonomous car

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Alex Flint

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20Some thoughts on "The Nature of Counterfactuals"

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19Results: Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals Prize

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17Counterfactuals are Confusing because of an Ontological Shift

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Chris_Leong

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16The Nature of Counterfactuals

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Chris_Leong

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13Causality and determinism in social science - An investigation using Pearl's causal ladder

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12Counterfactual Contracts

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10Probability Theory Fundamentals 102: Territory that Probability is in the Map of

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9Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical Uncertainty

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Counterfactuals