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  "handle": "FuzzyAlgorithm",
  "ref": "FuzzyAlgorithm#f1f3",
  "stub": "f1f3",
  "semaId": "sema:FuzzyAlgorithm#mh:SHA-256:f1f3b5ac49d0e145efcd58fbd660952f7583a7595b6e5e0940395ca07ef058c2",
  "layer": "Society",
  "category": "Protocols",
  "gloss": "A reusable route through coarse regions of a problem space, where each step names a condition to reach and leaves how to reach it to the executor's judgment",
  "mechanism": "When routes between the same kind of start and the same kind of goal recur, as a {{thinking_trace}} makes visible, they compress into a recipe: a short sequence of steps that works for the whole class, not one instance, a {{model_as_compression}} of many routes. The compression is achieved by coarse-graining. Each step names a region of the space and a test for having arrived (until golden; until the stakeholders are listed), instead of an exact operation. The gap inside each step is bridged by the executor's local competence at run time, which is what makes the recipe fuzzy and also what makes it short: like a {{productive_prediction_machine}}, it is simplified by what it can predict, here that the executor will cross each gap. An algorithm is the limiting case where every region is a single point and no judgment remains. The right grain is set by the executor, as in {{delegation_discipline}}: a recipe for an expert is shorter and fuzzier than one for a novice, and the same recipe is both at once for different hands. Recipes, policies, methods and procedures all take this form.",
  "invariants": [
    "Every step states a condition that must hold after it, not only an action",
    "Each step's region is small enough that the executor's local competence can cross it",
    "The sequence works for the stated class of starting conditions, not only the case it was derived from",
    "The grain of the steps matches the competence of the intended executor"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Over-specified: steps so fine that any variation from the derived case breaks the recipe",
    "Under-specified: steps assume a competence the executor lacks, and the expert's recipe fails in novice hands",
    "The reason for a step is compressed away, so the step cannot be adapted when conditions change and is followed as ritual",
    "The recipe keeps being followed after the conditions that made its route work have shifted",
    "A popular recipe locks a group onto a route no one re-derives, as a reinforced trail does in {{stigmergy}}, and better routes go unexplored"
  ],
  "ring": 1,
  "tier": 2,
  "aliases": {
    "model_as_compression": "ModelAsCompression",
    "productive_prediction_machine": "ProductivePredictionMachine",
    "thinking_trace": "ThinkingTrace",
    "stigmergy": "Stigmergy",
    "delegation_discipline": "DelegationDiscipline"
  },
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      "handle": "ModelAsCompression",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "model_as_compression",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/ModelAsCompression/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/ModelAsCompression.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "ProductivePredictionMachine",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "productive_prediction_machine",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/ProductivePredictionMachine/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/ProductivePredictionMachine.json"
    },
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      "handle": "ThinkingTrace",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "thinking_trace",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/ThinkingTrace/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/ThinkingTrace.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "Stigmergy",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "stigmergy",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/Stigmergy/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/Stigmergy.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "DelegationDiscipline",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "delegation_discipline",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/DelegationDiscipline/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/DelegationDiscipline.json"
    }
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  "usedBy": [],
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    "research": [],
    "works": [],
    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/FuzzyAlgorithm/",
  "graphUrl": "/knowledge-graph#FuzzyAlgorithm",
  "directory": "/knowledge-graph/patterns.json"
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