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by unixhero 292 days ago
I meant such topics such as Nicolas Taleb's antifragile - where an organism cannot be fed unlimited calories to become resilient to the times ahead.

Another example is within engineering with scarce inputs. The result is often much more ingenious than when the inventor or engineer has no limitations whatsoever.

Trying to figure out what to read or what to watch when everything in the knoen universe is at your fingertips, is another challenge where scarcity helps. I do like where we have ended up, regarding this though :).

And so on...