Reading through the wiki page, the Lindy effect is not so much about the the restaurant itself. It was initially about a comic's ability to stay relevant by not

Reading through the wiki page, the Lindy effect is not so much about the the restaurant itself. It was initially about a comic's ability to stay relevant by not having too many appearances then later seemingly co-opted by Mandelbrot and Taleb to mean what it does now. Lindy's law is a strange one for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect#cite_note-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect#cite_note-6 https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/1964-goldman.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/1964-goldman.pdf