Post ApodKitiQLz4c1hYjQ by landley@mstdn.jp
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(DIR) Post #ApmVLEa7R6MsveLek4 by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-05T19:17:14Z
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correlation is not causation, necessarily. but sometimes it is. but the arrow of causality may go in the direction opposite what you presume. so often what people think are means are ends, and vice versa.
(DIR) Post #ApodKitiQLz4c1hYjQ by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-06T19:56:10Z
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@interfluidity Hence the classic rebuttal "the means don't justify the ends, either."