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In tech circles, serendipity has gotten reductively redefined as high probability of positive human interactions in dense urban areas. That’s explainable by regular statistics. Serendipity is surprising (greater than model-predicted) luck without obvious cause.
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If it is an environmental statistical conditions you can exploit with an app, it’s not serendipity. It’s something much more tame like oversubscription or a high degree small world graph or something.
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Well one might argue that “outsmarting” serendipity directly defies its own definition per se, but there are many things we can do to maximize/catalyze serendipity. Knowing you have high odds of finding unexpected bliss is very different from knowing WHAT you’ll find, when, etc
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