Hacker News with Generative AI: Fragility

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb contrasts fragile systems—those that suffer serious harm under volatility—with robust systems that can endure stress with minimal damage. He extends this concept with antifragile systems, which can actually benefit from disorder, but we’ll focus here on the divide between fragile and robust.
Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised' (bbc.com)