Approximate Thinking Quotes

“The incompleteness of our knowledge is often addressed with different extrapolations and assumptions, sacrificing precision for ease, and reflecting the self onto the world.

This is not always bad, but it can – easily – become tricky.”
― Ahmad Hijazi, Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion

“When scientists work within a paradigm, they are working within a limited view of the world that accommodates most of the observations done till that stage.

A paradigm is an incomplete model – a simplified and approximated version of reality, or a projection onto a plane that has a few variables approximated away."

(The Fuzzy Truth of Science [The Follies: Dark Outcomes]. Fuzzy on the Dark Side)”
― Ahmad Hijazi, Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion

“People are Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) of their actions [and previous selves], with a varying number of data points.

You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b

You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Ahmad Hijazi, Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion