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https://jlai.lu/post/21422813 #causation #comics

While Uneven and Don Q milled around Hush Money House, Vanza visited the Good Shepherd, who then died. #111Words #DonQ #Uneven #HushMoneyHouse #Plunderland #Vanza #TheGoodShepherd #TheOrderOfLove #ResurrectionDay #Correlation #Causation https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/04/while-uneven-and-don-q-milled-around.html

Anyone want to discuss mind as first cause as a form of free will? #philosophy #freewill #causation #mind
I want to test and explore the idea with challenge. The idea that the mind satisfices with wrong models under imperfect information and as such a decision is first cause (even in a block universe, with potential energetic determinism).

I say I am an #agnostic #nihilist because belief is not a route to knowledge. But I am also an #absurdist by way of #existentialism . In our phenomenological acceptance (or faith in) the way things are we discover #meaning which is actually an interpretation of #causation. A form of #satisficing within the ‘wrong but useful (informational) models’ within our minds. In the wrongness of the models but the requirement to decide is the freedom of our will in the most practical and real sense to ‘us’ as minds.

Silencing a Fire Alarm 2
Eliminating only the symptoms of life problems while ignoring the inner cause creates a greater problem.

#causation #fire #alarm #life #innergrowth #mentalhealth

#Microsoft's viral paper about *correlations* between #AI use and #criticalThinking also has "impact" in the title (despite admitting "Our analysis does not establish #causation"). 🤦‍♂️

#Confidence in #GenAI predicted LESS critical thinking.

SELF-confidence predicted MORE critical thinking.

PREDICTED ≠ CAUSED

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-impact-of-generative-ai-on-critical-thinking-self-reported-reductions-in-cognitive-effort-and-confidence-effects-from-a-survey-of-knowledge-workers/

#computerScience #LLMs #work #decisionScience #psychology #surveyResearch #management #logic

The title versus the admission on page 14.

Unwise Thoughts
Unwise thoughts create suffering. Your present unwise thoughts create future suffering. Your past unwise thoughts create present suffering.

#causation #mindfulness #thoughts

One Who No One Can Help
No one can help you unless you stop doing what is causing yourself suffering.

#innergrowth #causation #help

Rapid Surge In Global Warming Mainly Due To Reduced Planetary Albedo
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https://phys.org/news/2024-12-rapid-surge-global-due-planetary.html <-- shared technical article
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7280 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #globe #global #climatechange #warming #remotesensing #PlanetaryAlbedo #Planetary #Albedo #model #modeling #AWI #ECMWF #NASA #weather #energybudget #causation

map and charts - Synthesis of contributions to Earth’s surface temperature anomaly 2023.
(A) CERES planetary albedo anomaly 2023 relative to 2001–2022 (derived from annual-mean TOA incident solar and upwelling solar radiation). (B) Contributions to the global-mean surface temperature anomaly 2023 found in this study, with 90% confidence intervals (materials and methods), (left) from the El Niño onset (red) and from absorbed solar radiation (ASR) anomalies since December 2020 due to incident solar radiation anomalies (orange) and planetary albedo anomalies (dark gray), and (right) the ASR-related contributions further decomposed into contributions from five zonal bands.

schematic - Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds, it's the opposite, so their decline leads to warming.

$maps - Decadal 2013–2022 trends and annual-mean 2023 anomalies of key parameters related to Earth’s temperature, energy budget and clouds. Trends and anomalies relative to 2001–2022 of (A and B) ERA5 surface (skin) temperature, (C and D) CERES absorbed solar radiation and (E and F) ERA5 low-cloud cover fraction.$

Now, I'm not saying that cocktails in general or my drinks-making ability specifically have magical healing powers but my wife, who's had cough/cold symptoms for the last few days, hasn't coughed or sneezed or sniffed once this evening while I've been whipping up some gorgeous raspberrytinis.

#Correlation #Causation #Alcohol #Cocktail

@simplicitarian While walking is a good thing, can't always its a causative effect for a long life.

However, not driving means I don't have to park or move a car which means there's more time for things like calling Gov. Kathy Hochul to ask for congestion pricing and participate in community affairs.
#aging #causation #CongestionPricing

dear mastodons, I am looking for a list of causal verbs and causal words in Italian for a study on health information in English and Italian. Found several in English, should I just translate them. Any pointer will be appreciated. #NLP #digitalhumanities #causation

Oh man...I can already see the claims of companies getting so and so more productive and "streamlining" processes thanks to #AI, while it'll turn out that:

Yes, companies will have gotten more productive.

And no, it's not _directly_ because of AI - it's because employees have inadvertently produced a lot of documentation in the hope of "feeding" the AI, while, by documenting things properly, they'll have actually helped humans doing a better job.

🤦

#Fallacy #LogicalFallacy #Causation #LLM

#PaulDavies - How Can We Find Deep #Reality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfvU9JYiSW8

#Philosophy #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #FreeWill #Will #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Universe #Time #Existence #Humanity #Meaning Science #Theology #PhilosophyOfScience #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Nature #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #God #StAugustine #Augustine #Causation #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#correlation ≠ #causation

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying

#correlation #causation #logic #LogicalFallacy #funny #memes

Spurious Correlations - #correlation is not #causation
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

#GalenStrawson - The #Nature of #Reality: #Metaphysics vs. #Materialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuGH_cPwKYE

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Existence #Causation #Physicalism #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Mind #FreeWill #Determinism #Physics #Empiricism #Qualia #Thoughts #Feelings #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

…we expanded our reach in 2005-2015 to ”smarter everything“ categories still with regional, governmental and industrial, logistics organizations. Then, from 2010-today, clarity in our mission led to an #IoT #IIoT maturity model of #connection, #communication, #contextualization, #collaboration, #causation, #conceptualization and #cognition leading to #SensorAnalyticsEcosystems