Quotes About Adaptation

they needed additional safety features and scrambled to add them, at any cost.

Lembre-se também do que vimos no capítulo 2: a sobrecompensação, para funcionar, exige algum nível de dano e estressores como ferramentas de descoberta

in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking in the same place twice.

Because deprivation is a stressor—and we know what stressors do when allowed adequate recovery.

I am renewable, not humanity or the ecosystem.

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have.

Trial and error is freedom.

in spite of our progress and the growth in knowledge, or perhaps because of such progress and growth, the future will be increasingly less predictable

Change for the sake of change, as we see in architecture, food, and lifestyle, is frequently the opposite of progress.

the drastic changes brought about by unpredictable discoveries

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

occasional starvation produces some health benefits and

So we are blind to the possibility of the alternative process, or the role of such a process, a loop:

If people were rational, their rationality would cause them to figure patterns from the past and adapt, so that past information would be completely useless for predicting the future.

The future ain't what it used to be," Berra

Further, the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. if every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution - so every attempt becomes more valuable, more like an expense than an error. And of course you make discoveries along the way.

Even now, we are using technology to reverse technology.

By betting against fragility, they were antifragile.

It is not your skills that are to blame.

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

Whenever your survival is in play, don't immediately look for causes and effects.

Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy.

I suspect that there would be a species for which our ethical rules would be relaxed or possibly lifted.

Crucially, if antifragility is the property of all those natural (and complex) systems that have survived, depriving these systems of volatility, randomness, and stressors will harm them.