Wait, can you describe the temporal inference in more detail? Maybe that’s where I’m confused. I’m imagining something like this:
Check which variables look uncorrelated
Assume they are orthogonal
From that orthogonality database, prove “before” relationships
Which runs into the problem that if you let a thermodynamical system run for a long time, it becomes a “soup” where nothing is obviously correlated to anything else. Basically the final state would say “hey, I contain a whole lot of orthogonal variables!” and that would stop you from proving any reasonable “before” relationships. What am I missing?
I think that you are pointing out that you might get a bunch of false positives in your step 1 after you let a thermodynamical system run for a long time, but they are are only approximate false positives.
Wait, can you describe the temporal inference in more detail? Maybe that’s where I’m confused. I’m imagining something like this:
Check which variables look uncorrelated
Assume they are orthogonal
From that orthogonality database, prove “before” relationships
Which runs into the problem that if you let a thermodynamical system run for a long time, it becomes a “soup” where nothing is obviously correlated to anything else. Basically the final state would say “hey, I contain a whole lot of orthogonal variables!” and that would stop you from proving any reasonable “before” relationships. What am I missing?
I think that you are pointing out that you might get a bunch of false positives in your step 1 after you let a thermodynamical system run for a long time, but they are are only approximate false positives.