ADAPTATION DYNAMICS
1/ How does the antifragile become more fragile?
What happens to antifragility as one become stronger or weaker?
A thread
1/ How does the antifragile become more fragile?
What happens to antifragility as one become stronger or weaker?
A thread
2/ This thread builds upon yesterday's one, which is a required reading to understand some of the terminology used here.
3/ Increasing the number of levels at the bottom of an entity makes it > antifragile, all other things equal
Example: if you consider yourself a container of mental patterns, you'll direct feedback agains them, learning. Considering yourself as a monolithic ego prevents learning
Example: if you consider yourself a container of mental patterns, you'll direct feedback agains them, learning. Considering yourself as a monolithic ego prevents learning
4/ This chart justifies the previous point 
5/ Instead, increasing the number of components at already-existing levels increases brittleness (in the measure it leads to centralization and/or specialization) (and decreases it otherwise).
6/ The faster damage travels compared to adaptation, the brittler the entity.
The faster the vertical propagation speed compared to the horizontal one, the brittler the entity.
The faster the vertical propagation speed compared to the horizontal one, the brittler the entity.
7/ In a static environment, increasing adaptation rate increases fragility, for it leads to adapting to small non-representative samples of the environment.
In the picture below, some of the factors that contribute to this.
In the picture below, some of the factors that contribute to this.
8/ In a dynamic environment, increasing the adaptation rate of an entity up to about* the adaptation rate of the environment increases antifragility, and decreases it beyond that.
This case is more representative of reality
(*): details and limitation in the paper linked below
This case is more representative of reality
(*): details and limitation in the paper linked below
9/ The points above are expanded in my paper "The Dynamics of Risk-Taking", which contains details, limitations and applications.
luca-dellanna.com/the-dynamics-o…
Tomorrow, part 4: Exposure Dynamics. How people/orgs change their exposure as they become stronger or weaker.
luca-dellanna.com/the-dynamics-o…
Tomorrow, part 4: Exposure Dynamics. How people/orgs change their exposure as they become stronger or weaker.
* I copy/pasted the wrong subtitle for this thread. Ops.
10/ (Today’s thread feels less solid than the previous ones, mostly because we’re getting in complex territory and one can only mention some effects, without being able to be fully comprehensive. Suggestions for additional points are more than welcome.)
