1. This article combines vague connections between chess, Indian philosophy, chemistry, life advice, quantum, etc. While I support the author in writing about whatever they feel like, there is a question what the upvoters on HN see in this.
2. If we're discussing the title... the reason people "underestimate" causality is because they've tried to use it a few times, been really wrong and learned not to do that again because a rational person doesn't trust their own ability to reason causally. See also; chess. It is really hard to assign causality in a 40 move game with a relatively limited number of choices each move. Assigning causality in reality is even harder. Getting it right is a very specialist skill.
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1. This article combines vague connections between chess, Indian philosophy, chemistry, life advice, quantum, etc. While I support the author in writing about whatever they feel like, there is a question what the upvoters on HN see in this.
2. If we're discussing the title... the reason people "underestimate" causality is because they've tried to use it a few times, been really wrong and learned not to do that again because a rational person doesn't trust their own ability to reason causally. See also; chess. It is really hard to assign causality in a 40 move game with a relatively limited number of choices each move. Assigning causality in reality is even harder. Getting it right is a very specialist skill.
There's a cadre of HN LSD-microdosers that probably see a lot of things.
It is, however, true that with higher dosage causality starts to breakdown (at least conceptually):
You didn't come to this world. It is this world which came to you.
... in the same way that you didn't take the LSD.. it was the LSD that took you.
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Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure the article is generated by GPT3 :P