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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by daedrdev on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:06PM (#44067014)
This is quite literally the appeal to tradition or inertia fallacy. Just because they've been around for a while does not mean they are not facing an existential threat. Every structure humans create will one day collapse. This certainly looks difficult for Harvard and could be their end because there is no divine protection, only the decision that will be made by an extremely conservative Supreme Court and the willingness of authoritarian minded government employees in the trump admin to listen to the courts.
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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by kurtis_reed on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:33PM (#44067328)
Things that have been around for a long time are the ones most likely to continue to exist, it's not a fallacy.
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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by shnock on Thursday May 22, 2025 @06:16PM (#44067740)
They are not, that is expectation of future performance based upon past. Reality is too complex and dynamic for that.
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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by rsanek on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:06PM (#44068124)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by NoPicklez on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:44PM (#44069679)
Reality is complex and dynamic, and through all of that Harvard's endurance pre-dates the US, therefore I would expect it to endure a 4 year term of Government. Not to say with a 100% certainty, but I would expect it to with a greater degree of confidence than many other things, based on its history.

However I wouldn't extend that line of thinking to stock markets, superannuation etc.

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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by albrewer on Friday May 23, 2025 @11:48AM (#44073904)
I worked for a foundry that had been at the same location for 120 years. GE ran it into the ground and closed it 2 years after acquiring it.
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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by mizzao on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:19AM (#44078739)
Lehman Brothers
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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by nextos on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:06PM (#44068121)
Appeal to tradition is reasonable in this context because of the Lindy effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect.

The longer something has been around, the more likely it's going to be around in the future.

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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by alephnerd on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:50AM (#44070536)
Tsinghua survived the Cultural Revolution. DU survived the Emergency. Cal survived Nixon. Harvard will survive this

That said, I personally believe Harvard's public reputation is significantly overstated - Stanford has become the new Harvard for at least 2 decades now.

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