From Taleb's 2012 book _Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder_ > Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy. This i

From Taleb's 2012 book _Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder_ > Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy. This is an indicator of some robustness. The robustness of an item is proportional to its life! "The Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, it is also likely to have a longer remaining life expectancy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect