Imagination (of counterfactuals) draws on domain knowledge and creativity and is key to causal reasoning; it is also where humans continue to outperform algorithms. What about the role of data?
๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ข ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ. ๐๐ต’๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฑ. ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ’๐ด ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ. ๐๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ.
This map distorts the data on the relative positions of the continents, but it uses the data correctly on their location and size. It’s just as wrong as any other world map, but it makes one look up, think, and imagine.
What might have happened if
– Central America was in the arctic zone and Siberia was subtropical
– Cubaย was off the east coast ofย Canadaย and theย USA
– Japan was off the coasts of Portugal and Spain
– North Korea was part of South Korea
– Taiwanย was next toย France