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I, along with several other commenters I see, also dislike "antifragility" as a word. However, Taleb in his book does discusses at length why a new word was needed and how its definition differs from existing words like 'robust', 'resilient', etc. which have a different meaning. He even talks even the process of choosing "antifragility" which in a nutshell was just the best he could come up with.

Seeing other comments, I think 'hormesis' might be a better word to start using instead of "antifragility" which, again, is a just an awkward word that feels kind of fake when you use it.



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