Tweeted By @zacharylipton

Every supervised model, in general, “overfits to spurious statistics” (note overloading of “overfitting”). The folly is in thinking that we can just do supervised curve fitting and somehow a causal concept (e.g. spuriousness) will magically fall out. #bookofjudea @yudapearl https://t.co/1FjjvKx0ND

— Zachary Lipton (@zacharylipton) July 21, 2019