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Is RL an exercise in causal inference? Of course! Albeit a restricted one. By deploying interventions in training, RL allows us to infer consequences of those interventions, but ONLY those interventions. A causal model is needed to go BEYOND, i.e., to actions not used in training

— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) November 23, 2018