Now I’m starting to part company with Taleb. Neither resilience as one kind of un-fragility nor the hydra phenomenon (is there a name for that?) appeals to me as examples of anti- or un- fragility Taleb is seeking as much as the phenomenon of that which is compacted and strengthened when pounded or stressed. The example I would come to is a Japanese sword, pounded out to a thin metal blade, then doubled and pounded out thin again and again. It is slender and thin but VERY strong. I think there are other materials like that.
What I’m really saying is that Taleb is depending on reflection and myth too much and leaving the world of material experience which is where fragility originated. This exposes him to side trips that amount to errors.
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Now I’m starting to part company with Taleb. Neither resilience as one kind of un-fragility nor the hydra phenomenon (is there a name for that?) appeals to me as examples of anti- or un- fragility Taleb is seeking as much as the phenomenon of that which is compacted and strengthened when pounded or stressed. The example I would come to is a Japanese sword, pounded out to a thin metal blade, then doubled and pounded out thin again and again. It is slender and thin but VERY strong. I think there are other materials like that.
What I’m really saying is that Taleb is depending on reflection and myth too much and leaving the world of material experience which is where fragility originated. This exposes him to side trips that amount to errors.
Prairie Mary