Many people have already and continue to try his experiment, and indeed work hard on scaling up the problems that his method is applied to.
That’s part of the problem. It was offered up as a “miracle” that supersedes and fully, logically subsumes the hard fought and real-world tested methods of others, who rightfully weren’t going to advocate the use of some other, unproven thing claimed to be a cure-all, yet they still did engage heavily with it and worked through the math and agreed with derivations for simple models under various collections of assumptions.
I’m still not seeing anything convincing. Pearl’s tone is not polite or even quirky, and strays badly from any measure of humility or collaborative spirit of inquiry. Really. I mean, sure, he’s not coming out dropping f-bombs, but that’s utterly not the point. Trying to justify it as if it’s a diplomatic and earnest request is silly. “Hey, your career’s worth of work is totally wrong. Here look, my work completely supersedes yours because I worked through some canonical, highly academic cases. But I’m being fair & balanced about it, I swear!”
And then when folks did look into it and still felt unconvinced, “I guess you’re just dogmatic & closed minded. I offered to look into it with you, but you ignored me.”
That’s part of the problem. It was offered up as a “miracle” that supersedes and fully, logically subsumes the hard fought and real-world tested methods of others, who rightfully weren’t going to advocate the use of some other, unproven thing claimed to be a cure-all, yet they still did engage heavily with it and worked through the math and agreed with derivations for simple models under various collections of assumptions.
I’m still not seeing anything convincing. Pearl’s tone is not polite or even quirky, and strays badly from any measure of humility or collaborative spirit of inquiry. Really. I mean, sure, he’s not coming out dropping f-bombs, but that’s utterly not the point. Trying to justify it as if it’s a diplomatic and earnest request is silly. “Hey, your career’s worth of work is totally wrong. Here look, my work completely supersedes yours because I worked through some canonical, highly academic cases. But I’m being fair & balanced about it, I swear!”
And then when folks did look into it and still felt unconvinced, “I guess you’re just dogmatic & closed minded. I offered to look into it with you, but you ignored me.”