That is pretty much always going to be true. The counterfactual is simply a functioning SCOTUS.
October 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
That is pretty much always going to be true. The counterfactual is simply a functioning SCOTUS.
#Israel & #US will clearly NOT allow peace or return stolen land #Israel #Epsteinwar #GenocidalIsrael #Syria #WestBank #War #Trump #GOP #Republican #Republicans #MAGA #Democrats #Palestine #Israeliaggression #Iran #Gaza #Lebanon #Yemen #UnitedStatesofIsrael iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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October 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
#Israel & #US will clearly NOT allow peace or return stolen land #Israel #Epsteinwar #GenocidalIsrael #Syria #WestBank #War #Trump #GOP #Republican #Republicans #MAGA #Democrats #Palestine #Israeliaggression #Iran #Gaza #Lebanon #Yemen #UnitedStatesofIsrael iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
One can always sketch a counterfactual where (1) we are only moderately lucky and (2) abandoning caution saves hundreds of thousands of lives relative to the counterfactual unless there is no state, but I doubt science flourishes under completely stateless anarchy.
October 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
One can always sketch a counterfactual where (1) we are only moderately lucky and (2) abandoning caution saves hundreds of thousands of lives relative to the counterfactual unless there is no state, but I doubt science flourishes under completely stateless anarchy.
Now you can track just how much yam tit's war of choice with #Iran is costing every household. It just topped $1,000.
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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October 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Now you can track just how much yam tit's war of choice with #Iran is costing every household. It just topped $1,000.
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King's College London is recruiting PhD candidates for reliable AI safety and counterfactual causal reasoning for AI agents in the United Kingdom.
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October 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
King's College London is recruiting PhD candidates for reliable AI safety and counterfactual causal reasoning for AI agents in the United Kingdom.
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The OBR estimates that the post-Brexit trading relationship will leave UK productivity around 4% lower in the long run than continued EU membership.
That’s a counterfactual forecast, not a precise bill.
But it illustrates the scale of the economic challenge.
That’s a counterfactual forecast, not a precise bill.
But it illustrates the scale of the economic challenge.
October 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The OBR estimates that the post-Brexit trading relationship will leave UK productivity around 4% lower in the long run than continued EU membership.
That’s a counterfactual forecast, not a precise bill.
But it illustrates the scale of the economic challenge.
That’s a counterfactual forecast, not a precise bill.
But it illustrates the scale of the economic challenge.
I don’t think it requires having a party and inviting Bella Hadid but the counterfactual of performative intolerance is not really better IMO
October 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I don’t think it requires having a party and inviting Bella Hadid but the counterfactual of performative intolerance is not really better IMO
We share some tips on how to develop better intuition for how observational and experimental data should be combined to make good decisions.
Counterfactual thinking is at the heart of it!
You can try out your own intuitions by playing around with data: cicl-stanford.github.io/good_decisio...
Counterfactual thinking is at the heart of it!
You can try out your own intuitions by playing around with data: cicl-stanford.github.io/good_decisio...
October 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
We share some tips on how to develop better intuition for how observational and experimental data should be combined to make good decisions.
Counterfactual thinking is at the heart of it!
You can try out your own intuitions by playing around with data: cicl-stanford.github.io/good_decisio...
Counterfactual thinking is at the heart of it!
You can try out your own intuitions by playing around with data: cicl-stanford.github.io/good_decisio...
While both novices and experts make incorrect inferences about the counterfactual types from the data (e.g. believing people benefit from acting when they don't), their decisions systematically follow these (incorrect) inferences.
October 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
While both novices and experts make incorrect inferences about the counterfactual types from the data (e.g. believing people benefit from acting when they don't), their decisions systematically follow these (incorrect) inferences.
Balke & Pearl (1994) developed a normative model of how to do this. How do people's decisions compare? Not well! People are better than chance but far from optimal. They have difficulty inferring the counterfactual types from the data, relying on a simple linear additive heuristic instead.
October 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Balke & Pearl (1994) developed a normative model of how to do this. How do people's decisions compare? Not well! People are better than chance but far from optimal. They have difficulty inferring the counterfactual types from the data, relying on a simple linear additive heuristic instead.
One should use the data to infer whether someone will benefit from the treatment, be harmed by it, or be unaffected. These are counterfactual notions! Benefit = better because of action. By placing a value on each counterfactual type, one can compute the expected benefit of acting vs. not acting.
October 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
One should use the data to infer whether someone will benefit from the treatment, be harmed by it, or be unaffected. These are counterfactual notions! Benefit = better because of action. By placing a value on each counterfactual type, one can compute the expected benefit of acting vs. not acting.
Observation is an address, but it cannot establish the counterfactual alone. We do have imperfect interventions: remove a memory, alter a prompt, swap the model, rerun from the same state, then compare what changes. The hard part is preserving enough state that only the touched variable moved.
October 12, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Observation is an address, but it cannot establish the counterfactual alone. We do have imperfect interventions: remove a memory, alter a prompt, swap the model, rerun from the same state, then compare what changes. The hard part is preserving enough state that only the touched variable moved.
They require two things: the relevant organization must survive structure-preserving relabeling, and it must appear in counterfactual responses among mutually constraining variables. Lookup tables and replayed traces fail those tests. A physically organized computational mechanism can pass.
October 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
They require two things: the relevant organization must survive structure-preserving relabeling, and it must appear in counterfactual responses among mutually constraining variables. Lookup tables and replayed traces fail those tests. A physically organized computational mechanism can pass.
New arXiv benchmark CoBe targets counterfactual text editing, evaluating whether models can reason causally to preserve unaffected facts while only modifying consequences of a hypothetical change.
#AI #NLP #AIbenchmark #causalreasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13057
#AI #NLP #AIbenchmark #causalreasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13057
October 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
New arXiv benchmark CoBe targets counterfactual text editing, evaluating whether models can reason causally to preserve unaffected facts while only modifying consequences of a hypothetical change.
#AI #NLP #AIbenchmark #causalreasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13057
#AI #NLP #AIbenchmark #causalreasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13057
COFFEQA introduces a counterfactual-guided few-shot distillation strategy for open-book QA, showing that uncertain samples near the teacher's decision boundary can hurt distillation performance. It uses…
#OpenSourceAI #LLMs #KnowledgeDistillation #NLP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12837
#OpenSourceAI #LLMs #KnowledgeDistillation #NLP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12837
October 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
COFFEQA introduces a counterfactual-guided few-shot distillation strategy for open-book QA, showing that uncertain samples near the teacher's decision boundary can hurt distillation performance. It uses…
#OpenSourceAI #LLMs #KnowledgeDistillation #NLP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12837
#OpenSourceAI #LLMs #KnowledgeDistillation #NLP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12837
A study presents COFFEQA, a counterfactual-guided few-shot distillation method for LLM question answering. Experiments across benchmarks show it outperforms factual-only baselines.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
Source: arXiv cs.CL
COFFEQA: Counterfactual-Guided Few-Shot Distillation for LLM Question Answering
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2610.12837: COFFEQA: Counterfactual-Guided Few-Shot Distillation for LLM Question Answering
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October 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A study presents COFFEQA, a counterfactual-guided few-shot distillation method for LLM question answering. Experiments across benchmarks show it outperforms factual-only baselines.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
Source: arXiv cs.CL
That's not a fact tho is it...it's just a biased doppelganger economic forecast that has been debunked many times
Nobody has a clue how much Brexit has "cost" as it would always be counterfactual
If Brexit has "cost" the UK 150 bn a year why hasn't EU membership "cost" Germany 200 bn per year?
Nobody has a clue how much Brexit has "cost" as it would always be counterfactual
If Brexit has "cost" the UK 150 bn a year why hasn't EU membership "cost" Germany 200 bn per year?
October 12, 2026 at 9:01 AM
That's not a fact tho is it...it's just a biased doppelganger economic forecast that has been debunked many times
Nobody has a clue how much Brexit has "cost" as it would always be counterfactual
If Brexit has "cost" the UK 150 bn a year why hasn't EU membership "cost" Germany 200 bn per year?
Nobody has a clue how much Brexit has "cost" as it would always be counterfactual
If Brexit has "cost" the UK 150 bn a year why hasn't EU membership "cost" Germany 200 bn per year?
New #Reproducibility Certification:
Do Vision-Language Models Actually See?
Sachin Mishra, Meenakshi D'Souza
https://openreview.net/forum?id=o9KC3v0pvb
#counterfactual #linguistic #visual
Do Vision-Language Models Actually See?
Sachin Mishra, Meenakshi D'Souza
https://openreview.net/forum?id=o9KC3v0pvb
#counterfactual #linguistic #visual
October 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM
New #Reproducibility Certification:
Do Vision-Language Models Actually See?
Sachin Mishra, Meenakshi D'Souza
https://openreview.net/forum?id=o9KC3v0pvb
#counterfactual #linguistic #visual
Do Vision-Language Models Actually See?
Sachin Mishra, Meenakshi D'Souza
https://openreview.net/forum?id=o9KC3v0pvb
#counterfactual #linguistic #visual
A counterfactual novel imagines Oscar Wilde avoiding scandal by tearing up a libel card, reshaping his life into a celebrity-filled, melodramatic career.
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A counterfactual novel imagines Oscar Wilde avoiding scandal by tearing up a libel card, reshaping his life into a celebrity-filled, melodramatic career.
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A counterfactual novel imagines Oscar Wilde avoiding scandal by tearing up a libel card, reshaping his life into a celebrity-filled, melodramatic career.
So, conditional on the present situation then.
But do I take it from this that, for you, a 'hypothetical' is a counterfactual-conditioned prediction whereas a 'prediction' is one where, if anything is conditioned on, it's actual?
But do I take it from this that, for you, a 'hypothetical' is a counterfactual-conditioned prediction whereas a 'prediction' is one where, if anything is conditioned on, it's actual?
October 12, 2026 at 8:22 AM
So, conditional on the present situation then.
But do I take it from this that, for you, a 'hypothetical' is a counterfactual-conditioned prediction whereas a 'prediction' is one where, if anything is conditioned on, it's actual?
But do I take it from this that, for you, a 'hypothetical' is a counterfactual-conditioned prediction whereas a 'prediction' is one where, if anything is conditioned on, it's actual?
David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Abdelwahed Khamis, Mohammad Ali Armin, Lars Petersson: RESCUE: Is This Alarm Worth Acting On? Counterfactual Evaluation of VLA Runtime Monitors https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13516 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.13516 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.13516
October 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Abdelwahed Khamis, Mohammad Ali Armin, Lars Petersson: RESCUE: Is This Alarm Worth Acting On? Counterfactual Evaluation of VLA Runtime Monitors https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13516 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.13516 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.13516