I’m confused what necessary work the Factorisation is doing in these temporal examples - in your example A and B are independent and C is related to both - the only assignment of “upstream/downstream” relations that makes sense is that C is downstream of both.
Is the idea that factorisation is what carves your massive set of possible worlds up into these variables in the first place? Feel like I’m in a weird position where the math makes sense but I’m missing the motivational intuition for why we want to switch to this framework in the first place
What would such a distribution look like? The version where X XOR Y is independent of both X and Y makes sense but I’m struggling to envisage a case where it’s independent of only 1 variable.
I’m confused what necessary work the Factorisation is doing in these temporal examples - in your example A and B are independent and C is related to both - the only assignment of “upstream/downstream” relations that makes sense is that C is downstream of both.
Is the idea that factorisation is what carves your massive set of possible worlds up into these variables in the first place? Feel like I’m in a weird position where the math makes sense but I’m missing the motivational intuition for why we want to switch to this framework in the first place