Shall we count the living or the dead?

This is a linkpost for an entry in my Substack newsletter at https://​​countheliving.substack.com/​​p/​​shall-we-count-the-living-or-the . In this entry, we announce a new arXiv preprint, “Shall we count the living or the dead”. This preprint builds on my earlier work that has previously been discussed on Less Wrong, and which led to a response first on Less Wrong and later in the European Journal of Epidemiology by Carlos Cinelli and Judea Pearl.

The Substack entry contains a link to an animated video on YouTube, which explains a simplified version of the argument