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Antifragility Versus Robustness
- Antifragile systems improve from stress and have upside from volatility.
- Fragile things only suffer; robustness merely resists harm without gaining from shocks.
Stress Is Necessary For Living Systems
- Living systems need stress to communicate with the environment and improve.
- Removing stress (e.g., spaceflight bone loss) leads to decay, not health.
Adopt A Barbell Strategy
- Use a 'barbell' approach: combine extreme safety and small-scale risk-taking.
- Keep most resources extremely safe and allocate a small portion to high-risk, high-upside bets.