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Lindy is a deli in New York, now a tourist trap, that proudly claims to be famous for its cheesecake, but in fact has been known for fifty or so years by physicists and mathematicians thanks to the heuristic that developed there. Actors who hung out there gossiping about other actors discovered that Broadway shows that lasted for, say, one hundred days, had a future life expectancy of a hundred more. For those that lasted two hundred days, two hundred more. The heuristic became known as the Lindy effect.
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Common knowledge is the name for the epistemic state we’re collectively in, when we know we can all start choosing action B - and trust everyone else to do the same.
The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge - LessWrong
Ben Pace
There is knowledge of the present only when there is a complete understanding of what the structure and the nature of the past is—and ending it.
Total Freedom_ the Essential Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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