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I think it's amazing that humans aren't seriously and permanently damaged way more often than we are. It seems like it's incredibly hard to keep anything complex working for just a couple years and humans regularly manage that for 25x or more of largely healthy, active adult life and then have a decade or two of lesser health, but overall it's amazing how well we work.


It really is a weird combination of fragility and incredible robustness


This is basically Taleb's Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.




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