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Everytime I read "resilience" I instantly remember "antifragility" concept coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His book Antifragile goes in more depth about stress
by mig4ng 7y ago
Everytime I read "resilience" I instantly remember "antifragility" concept coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His book Antifragile goes in more depth about stress causing improvement in systems (therefore antifragility), both in human body and other systems (economics, social, political, etc).
- decebalus1 7y agoEvery time I read "antifragility" I instantly remember a web of pseudo-science babble built around a core of repackaged bullshit and regurgitated by someone who comes off as a whiner and an arrogant ass at the same time.
- yathern 7y agoThere are very valid criticisms of Nassim. However, only one person seems whiney and arrogant when you make those criticisms like that.
- nradov 7y agoHis whole "antifragility" concept is mostly just cherry picked examples with little basis in science or true systems analysis. He has extremely high self confidence which many people confuse with actual knowledge. Don't take it too seriously, it's just entertainment.
- ksdale 7y agoI've thought that "antifragility" as a concept has been a useful way to think about a lot of different things, could you clarify what you mean by true systems analysis? I'm always interested in learning more about this stuff!
- jgalt212 7y ago> He has extremely high self confidence Agreed, and I would add he's extremely combative with those of opposing view points. So much so, that he spends large portions of his books (and social media posts) not expounding upon his theories and why they are right, but why his opposition is so stupid and wrong. In any event, I do think many/most of the things Talib expounds upon are correct/have merit. The best way to read his is probably through via second hand accounts of his work.
- chubot 7y agoHe's following his own advice by describing his ideas "via negativa" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Via_negativa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Via_negativa Lots of descriptions on the web: https://www.bing.com/search?q=taleb%20via%20negativa https://www.bing.com/search?q=taleb%20via%20negativa (google seems to have mutilated its URL, so using bing) In other words, positive knowledge and negative knowledge aren't symmetrical. It helps to say why people are wrong (although if you want to say he's rude and offputting about it, I won't disagree, although I've gotten past it) There are also a lot more ways to be wrong than to be right. So describing why people are wrong could take a lot of space in the book, and still be valuable.
- Reedx 7y agoNo need to throw the baby out with the bathwater though. Antifragility is a very useful concept and is clearly real, regardless of the author's traits.
- pcstl 7y agoCould you elaborate on this? I'd be interested in a few examples of Taleb's cherry picking and counterexamples to his statements on antifragility.