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Could it be that literary authors, like most people, are just not really good with or interested in the computer? People write about what they know.

Always have a moment's pause to think of all the infrastructure, money and quality of life propped up by the unpaid work of obscure volunteers who answer to no one but their own good will. It's funny and in a way humbling how so many things in the world are run like that.

It is apparently not enough that the Machine got unfettered access to every single aspect of our private lives - we should merge and become one with Her.

It takes time to write a paper, even for negative results, and moreover journals charge a hefty fee.

That journal already exists lol, it's called PlosONE.

Looking at a strain of thought that seeks to attribute the current differences in outcomes and 'accomplishments' between Africans and Europeans to the inherent qualities of their populations, thereby discarding the possibility that such outcomes could have been different not so long ago, and seeing this strain of thought dominate HN and HN-adjacent communities (in the form of "we should dig into at'uncomfortable questions' and so forth"), I'd say that yes, Kush has largely been forgotten by the general population, even that part of which who likes to call itself 'educated'.

Reddit hasn't been taken over by communist SJWs, they're just preparing for an IPO. If you're unhappy that participating in capitalism usually entails some kind of unaccountable censorship you should probably revise some of your pre-existing beliefs about capitalism.

Pretty much all of psych constructs are ill-defined, from IQ to autism to schizophrenia. That's not to say intelligence or mental illness isn't real, only that psychologists have done a spectacularly bad job at accounting for it in a scientifically valid way.