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RE: About Antifragility and Decentralized Systems
I came across the concept of Anti-fragility two months ago and am now reading Taleb's Black Swan. I like the concept a lot and certainly see parallels between the concept of Anti-fragility and decentralized systems. I like to compare Anti-fragility with a porcelain cup. If we drop it, it will break. Most people would think that in order to keep it from breaking, we should make the cup harder which is like making it more 'Resilient' or unchanging in volatile circumstances. However, what if we would not harden the material of the cup, but would change its structure so that everytime it would break it would grow and get stronger from volatility. That is 'Anti-fragility'.
I stumbled accross a draft of the starfish and the spider https://www.amazon.de/dp/B000S1LU3M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
which motivated me to write this blog. Starfishes have the great ability that they do not have a head - apparently every leg (or how is it called?) is kind of an independent entity, and some species are even able to recover themselves from just a leg.
Still I'm not sure if a starfish is a good example for antifragility, since it just recovers from pressure, it does not gain strength.
Great examples are hard to find, but it is fun to search them :)
Anyways, thanks for recommending the black swan to me