Is History Lindy?
Nassim Taleb says something is Lindy if its chances of longevity increase the longer it’s been around. Lindy-ness is a probabilistic concept, not an ontological (substantive) one—it describes a statistical reality based on our limited information, not the actual thing itself, whose longevity does not depend on our probability models. Taleb’s example is …
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