moldbug, but in the sense of "pattern-causing feature"
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take for example the potato chip or crisp, it was a flub that changed the history of cooked potatoes. Did you know that the vacuum tube, predecessor of the transistor, was a moldbug? That's right, vacuum tubes were accidentally invented when creating lightbulbs.
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both De Maistre and Bacon are wrong. De Maistre thinks (wrongly) that science is not at all a method. Incorrect! Bacon thinks that science or progress in knowledge can be completely methodized. Wrong!
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Progress in knowledge as we understand it has two components: 1. an orderly method of investigation, 2. accidental side-effects of that method which open doors we did not see before. Those accidental side effects? Those are the moldbugs.
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Without such an orderly method, we would have no way to investigate, there would be no progress. But attempting to systematize this totally and therefore be able to predict moldbugs is foolish; one does not know what lies under the ground for certain until one has dug it up.
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Thus both the foolish person who thinks creativity has no method, just inspiration and disorder, and the unwise person who wishes to appear completely free of any mistake in the perfection with which they perform a method, will discover nothing! It has been spoken!
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