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I wonder how they will quantize causality. Sometimes a particular cause has different, and even opposite, effects.

Alcohol causes anxiety. At the same time it causes relaxation. These effects depend on time frame, and many individual circumstances.

This is a single example but the world is full of them. Codifying causality will involve a certain amount of bias and belief. That does not lead to a better world.

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