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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Antifragility

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Is the Human Body in the First or Second Category?

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The human body gets better if its exposed to ride among the stresses. The livinge between living and he machine, for example, requires stressers. There's a mechanism in biology called hormesis. If you can apply that to economic life, is economic life in the first or second category? Ri you see, if it's in the first category, than we should have balouts, top down, engineers everything. If it's in second categories, i'm sorry, you know, it doesn't work that way.

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