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The external shocks to a process benefit the process and make it stronger. Eg your immune system gets stronger by exposed to some amount of bugs that it needs t
by harry8 5y ago
The external shocks to a process benefit the process and make it stronger. Eg your immune system gets stronger by exposed to some amount of bugs that it needs to fight, despite your getting sick while it's fighting them.
The distinction is whether it's "This is fine, we did ok through this" which is robust vs "This is something where we are now in a stronger position from being knocked about a bit."
A well made double brick wall may be robust and survive the cyclone looking good but is not anti-fragile.
- 1123581321 5y agoYes, I understand. I think they were trying hard to make that distinction in the article with the long section about robustness and the long section about antifragility, as well as the definitions up front that match yours.
- harry8 5y agoI may have hit reply on the wrong comment there. Sorry.