Talk:Lindy effect/Archive 1
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"This contrasts with living creatures" I heard that lobsters had a decreasing death rate past a certain age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.67.197.191 (talk) 12:24, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
May be the case but they all must die and so Not power law distributed (i.e. not asymptotic). See survivorship curve for living things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_curve VergilDen (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:27, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
- Yes. Pretty much all animals have a period of infant (or equivalent) mortality, followed by a decreasing death rate; more like a "bathtub" curve, i.e. lots of problems with the new system, then a period of reliable operations, then it starts to wear out. Like some railway lines one can think of. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:27, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Life expectancy and Mandlebrot
The current meaning of the LE is life expectancy which is strictly a Taleb contribution. Mandlebrots, in the half a page coverage of the LE, only covers human promise, not life expectancy of non-perishables. As BM significantly differs from Goldman, so does Taleb of BM and hence requires more prominence on the page VergilDen (talk) 00:16, 4 August 2017 (UTC)