wondering if we should be talking less about "decentralization" and more about "resilience"

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Agree with the sentiment but not sure about resilience either 

Decentralization feels like an unmeasurable ideological quality whereas resilience at least has the context of being able to withstand something 

Need to quantify and agree on that something though (the attack vector / surface area)

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I'm not sure it's even that, I think the issue is that decentralization is a continuum relative to some frame of reference. It is not binary or absolute. But English semantics misleadingly imply that it is.

Resilience semantics imply "resilience against... what?" This is valuable framing for conversation.

Agreed, that is the issue I have with it, the default english semantics around the word lead people astray: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x4eab2071

We need a vocabulary that focuses onto threat modeling, as you said.