Redundancy is one of the main factors that makes a system Antifragile. It's difficult to be fragile when there are so many backups.

For example, in a garden, there are many kinds of plants that could fill a certain patch of ground. The most opportunistic one fills the space, but if it were removed, another would opportunistically fill the same space. The problem is the opportunity

Another example is on the internet. There are many pages that will fill in the gaps to provide good results to a google search. If one page disappears, then another will fill its spot. By both existing, the internet becomes a more helpful and antifragile space. SEO ranking to fill niches

Another is (Bitcoin's timechain #citation)

These systems operate this way as their designers intended, and there is a beauty in the design's... antifragility.

It's beautiful from the perspective of the system as a whole. However, it doesn't feel very good if you're the one that gets removed by another more opportunistic plant or webpage.

There is a distinct difference between the beauty of the system as a whole and the ugliness of being made irrelevant and getting kicked to the side. I'm having a hard time reconciling the distinct hurt of personal injury for the "greater good."

: I've attempted to reconcile this in Two views on survival in complex systems

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