This post was written during Alex Altair's agent foundations fellowship program, funded by LTFF. Thank you Alex Altair, Alfred Harwood, Daniel C for feedback and comments. Introduction The selection theorems agenda aims to prove statements of the following form: "agents selected under criteria X has property Y," where Y are...
Tl;dr, A choice of variable in causal modeling is good if its causal effect is consistent across all the different ways of implementing it in terms of the low-level model. This notion can be made precise into a relation among causal models, giving us conditions as to when we can...