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Democracy, nuclear power, calculus, dna helix, x-ray, written word, relativity comes to mind for starters. There are millions others.

• vidarh 4y ago
  Care to elaborate how any of those involved humans inventing something that wasn't a combination of synthesis with a stochastic process filling in the gaps? E.g the discovery of x-rays took over a century of applying small iterations to established processes to accumulate data. There was no big, sudden leap of insight there.
  • testrun 4y ago
    How is democracy a stochastic process?
    • vidarh 4y ago
      Not what I meant. Talking about the process of the inventions, not the inventions themselves.