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Comment author: khafra 27 March 2013 04:05:53PM 0 points [-]

I would also like to issue a general warning against taking theorems too seriously. Theorems are very delicate creatures; often if their assumptions are relaxed even slightly they totally fall apart.

Is the criteria for antifragility formal enough that there could be a list of antifragile theorems?

Comment author: AlexMennen 27 March 2013 05:52:09PM 3 points [-]

No. The fragility is in humans' ability to misinterpret theorems, not in the theorems themselves, and humans are complex enough that I highly doubt that you'd be able to come up with a useful list of criteria that could guarantee that no human would ever misinterpret a theorem.