dkirmani comments on There is way too much serendipity

[dkirmani]

Yeah. Here’s an excerpt from Antifragile by Taleb:

One can make a list of medications that came Black Swan–style from serendipity and compare it to the list of medications that came from design. I was about to embark on such a list until I realized that the notable exceptions, that is, drugs that were discovered in a teleological manner, are too few—mostly AZT, AIDS drugs.