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Serendipity

The Myth of the Objective
Serendipity Objectives Use Case
An invitation to consider the application of mathematical optimization in light of the view expressed by Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman in their book ‘Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned’ (2015). I posit that a richness of possible solutions can in many use cases be more valuable than a closer-to-optimum objective value.