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by mo_42 680 days ago
I'd like to point out that Norbert Wiener was the first to discover the concept of antifragility (under a different term though).

It's also worth checking out more of his works as he initiated the field of cybernetics.
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agumonkey 680 days ago
Where did he described this? (Honest question)
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mo_42 680 days ago
To be correct, he maybe didn't coin the term. At least I didn't find it on quick search in his book Cybernetics. Seems like the term ultrastable actually comes from Ashby [1].

[1] https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~ezequiel/AS/lectures/AdaptiveSys...

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agumonkey 680 days ago
Yeah, I'm more curious about his point of view than terminology. Thanks
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r_hanz 680 days ago
I believe Nassim Taleb coined the term.
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