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See also antifragility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility

In short, efficiency is fragile. If you want your thing to be be stronger after a shock (instead of falling apart), you must design it to be antifragile.

Note: it's hard to build antifragile physical things or software, but processes and organizations are easier. ML models can be antifragile if they're constantly updating.



Yes, extending the idea more broadly to society, health, politics, etc. sounds pretty much was Taleb has been doing.




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