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Is there a concept like antihormesis where steady, accumulating responses to stressors with insufficient recovery makes you more fragile rather than antifragile? Feels strange that this obvious default case and normal chronic stress response but has no word. Fragilization?
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This has been my main dissatisfaction around antifragility. It theorizes the corner case without theorizing the default case. Sapolosky’s stuff is as good as it gets, and that’s very limited to zebra-level biological phenomenology. Cc @context_ing
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With focus on systemic integrity/disintegrity response rather than specific symptoms. Yep trauma creep captures it.
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Those terms are good for the symptoms but don’t capture the progressive unraveling of system integrity as it degrades from complex living system to pull of entropic mass energy.
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Like caregiver fatigue, compassion fatigue? In materials, it's fatigue. Chronic low level stress on people doesn't seem to have a language to distinguish from more dramatic incidents of trauma, yet we read how serious it is.
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