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Lebannon apparently not the examplar of antifragility that Nassim Taleb made it out to be.

MengerSponge 5y ago
You know how in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z the Saiyans get stronger every time they're almost killed? That's antifragility. Now think about how many times Goku and Vegeta still die in spite of their antifragility. Your bones are antifragile, but they can be broken. Cities and civilizations can be antifragile, but they're still susceptible to collapse given the right forces.
- dogma1138 5y ago
  Your bones are definitely not anti fragile… it’s a common misconception in fact without modern medicine a compound fracture will not heal right on its own in most cases.
  - MengerSponge 5y ago
    Again, anti fragile does not mean unbreakable. Anti fragile systems are less likely to fail because they get stronger when subjected to reasonable stresses. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-best-exercises-for-your-bones https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-best-exer...
    - dogma1138 5y ago
      Bones don’t heal up stronger, and I think you should read the article you’ve linked… it’s about physical exercise to reduce / prevent falls not that it somehow makes your bones stronger. Physical exercise doesn’t make bones stronger, some physical activity may delay them becoming fragile due to old age but overall actual stresses on your skeleton cause stress fractures they don’t turn you into wolverine.
      - MengerSponge 5y ago
        So let me get this right: if you don't exercise your bones, nothing happens until you get old when your bones get brittle anyway? If that were the case, astronauts wouldn't experience any change in bone density. Let's go to the tapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_osteopenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_osteopenia Bones get stronger where they're subjected to stress. If you don't stress them, they get weaker. If you stress them too much, they break. Put another way, you're arguing that Hafþór Björnsson, the strongest man in the world, a dude who deadlifted 1,100 lbs, has bones with the same tensile strength as a sedentary man of the same age? Or somehow you've argued that Hafþór's femurs will actually be weaker because of microfractures? LOL

You know how in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z the Saiyans get stronger every time they're almost killed? That's antifragility. Now think about how many times Goku and Vegeta still die in spite of their antifragility. Your bones are antifragile, but they can be broken. Cities and civilizations can be antifragile, but they're still susceptible to collapse given the right forces.

dogma1138 5y ago
Your bones are definitely not anti fragile… it’s a common misconception in fact without modern medicine a compound fracture will not heal right on its own in most cases.
- MengerSponge 5y ago
  Again, anti fragile does not mean unbreakable. Anti fragile systems are less likely to fail because they get stronger when subjected to reasonable stresses. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-best-exercises-for-your-bones https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-best-exer...
  - dogma1138 5y ago
    Bones don’t heal up stronger, and I think you should read the article you’ve linked… it’s about physical exercise to reduce / prevent falls not that it somehow makes your bones stronger. Physical exercise doesn’t make bones stronger, some physical activity may delay them becoming fragile due to old age but overall actual stresses on your skeleton cause stress fractures they don’t turn you into wolverine.
    - MengerSponge 5y ago
      So let me get this right: if you don't exercise your bones, nothing happens until you get old when your bones get brittle anyway? If that were the case, astronauts wouldn't experience any change in bone density. Let's go to the tapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_osteopenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_osteopenia Bones get stronger where they're subjected to stress. If you don't stress them, they get weaker. If you stress them too much, they break. Put another way, you're arguing that Hafþór Björnsson, the strongest man in the world, a dude who deadlifted 1,100 lbs, has bones with the same tensile strength as a sedentary man of the same age? Or somehow you've argued that Hafþór's femurs will actually be weaker because of microfractures? LOL