Antifragility
Taleb's concept of systems that benefit from stressors and volatility. Antifragile > robust > fragile. Hormesis: small doses of stressors strengthen. Barbell strategy: extreme safety plus extreme risk. Evolution is antifragile through variation and selection. Bureaucracies are fragile; decentralized systems antifragile. Via negativa: remove harmful rather than add beneficial. Ancestral health applies antifragility to body. Lindy effect: time-tested things are antifragile.
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