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Maxim Lott's avatar

Super interesting.

As a side note, the IQ projection charts suggest no major decline yet, but also that the number of very smart working age people will approach nearly zero by 2100?… in other words, it predicts that we should begin to see a major cultural decline driven by that?

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Sebastian Jensen's avatar

Yes, though I don't think the decline will be as bad as the one observed, as fertility among the lower classes is plumetting.

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Argos's avatar

I think the increased pace of anime has more to do with TV anime becoming almost exclusively 1-cour (11-13 episodes long) rather than 2-cour (22-26 episodes) as used to be the norm, than it has to do with streaming.

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Richard Hanania's avatar

"People also rarely finish the books they read, which can be inferred from the fact people tend to be much more likely to quote passages from the beginning of a book."

Authors are often told to put the most important things they have to say at the beginning! So the beginning might end up being much more quotable.

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Substack Enjoyer's avatar

typo in paragraph starting with "Because of the monocausal nature of creativity," "regarldess" feel free 2 delete this comment

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Substack Enjoyer's avatar

I can tell this is the synthesis of 1000s of hours of work good stuff!!!

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Devin Ruth's avatar

Where does anime aestherics integrate here?

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