From Falken Blog’s review of Nassim Taleb:
One theme of the book Antifragile is hormesis, the finding that things that are clearly bad for you at extreme doses, are good for you in small doses; a glass of wine a day, radiation, germs, etc. If you have zero exposure to germs, you won’t develop a healthy immune system. Arthur Robinson has been a lead of hormesis with his work in the 1970’s, and there’s a fascinating tale about how he discovered this in the context of the assertions about radiation extrapolation by Robinson’s mentor, the famous chemist Linus Pauling, and a nasty legal battle that ensued. The fact that micro-instability is necessary for greater macro-stability is a very good, and very Austrian point.
See a similar point about Brisk here.