The Antifragility of the Open Source: Like peer review of scientific publications, open source software is subjected to thousands of eyeballs to find bugs, and hands to fix them. And that this mass collaboration structure creates powerful and robust systems.
Indeed, the underlying mechanism is best understood as an antifragile system. Yet breakable, changeable systems are paradoxically strong. Like an immune system, or the goddess Akhilandeshvari, there’s something powerful about being “never not broken”. So many of today’s most important systems today follow these principles.
For instance, the idea was baked into Jimmy Wales’ thinking before he started Wikipedia. Peterson is widely recognized as creating the phrase “open source”, told me that, “The very first software was open. The theory was that we make money selling hardware. Software was just something you gave away to make it happen. We’re discovering what people knew in the early days, which was that collaboration is really useful.”
There’s an emerging consensus that massive collab, as enhanced by modeling of reality, not just software, has a huge potential in many realms, including economics, the environment, development, and the cross-domain linkages between them.
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