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Anti-Fragile by Nissim Talib
The concept of anti-fragile was rather metaphorical in the way Talib uses it. It's a description of systems as they develop that are sort of designed by evolution. All mammals play, and this is very important for our discussion because part of the development of program for mammals is play. The amazing thing about neural development and the evolution of brains is that what evolution gave us is a set of neurons that will grow together with certain initial conditions.