I don’t think I covered any specific relationship between factors in that essay (except those that were formally modelled in), where I was mainly trying to lay out a framework that would even allow you to ask a question. This essay is the first time I’ve spent meaningful effort on trying to answer it.
I think it’s probably ok to treat the factors as a priori independent, since ultimately you have to run with your own priors. And for the sake of informing prioritisation decisions, you can decide case by case how much you imagine your counterfactual action changing each factor.
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I don’t think I covered any specific relationship between factors in that essay (except those that were formally modelled in), where I was mainly trying to lay out a framework that would even allow you to ask a question. This essay is the first time I’ve spent meaningful effort on trying to answer it.
I think it’s probably ok to treat the factors as a priori independent, since ultimately you have to run with your own priors. And for the sake of informing prioritisation decisions, you can decide case by case how much you imagine your counterfactual action changing each factor.