billswift comments on [SEQ RERUN] My Best and Worst Mistake - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 30 August 2012 01:45:27AM 3 points [-]

Off-topic, but in the context of "best mistake", here is John Ringo's definition of serendipity from The Last Centurion:

We were saved by serendipity. (Which is a term meaning "I fucked up but things came out better than if I hadn't.")