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by ly3xqhl8g9 1113 days ago
Contrary to popular belief, perhaps we are not yet ready for fuzzy logic-based mathematics†. Like asking that does Boolean logic do in the 13th century, before Leibniz had any glimpse of characteristica universalis [1] (software, as opposed to calculus ratiocinator, hardware). If cryptocurrencies are solutions in search of a problem, fuzzy logic, and especially fuzzy dual numbers logic [2] [3] [4], doesn't even know it is a solution.

† one speculative use would be to assign degrees(?) of agency, some kind of a future unit of measurement: a person can be 100% evolved, or maybe 49% evolved and 51% designed (prosthetics, neural implants, and so on).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis

[2] 2017, Fuzzy Dual Numbers: Theory and Applications, https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/3172931

[3] "Fuzzy Dual Dynamic Programming", https://hal-enac.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01372543/document

[4] "Dual Numbers & Automatic Differentiation", https://blog.demofox.org/2014/12/30/dual-numbers-automatic-d...