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1 month agoNews has a short attention span for juicy subjects, much shorter for complex, “boring” subjects. Especially ones that continue to be refined indefinitely. That’s what happened to it. Doesn’t have much to do with what is still happening to it in academia and research.
Combined with commoditization of necessities like food and automated and near instantaneous trading of those commodities without needing them to physically change hands, this is a big driver of the insane inflation/shrinkflation were seeing.