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skeeter2020today at 4:44 PM1 replyview on HN

that's before you even look at medically-related and late age cognitive decline, but unfortunately there are massive socio-economic effects that work against this


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randcrawtoday at 7:07 PM

More than socio-economic, the chief factor that advances US political candidates is, simply, fame. These days fame is achieved by somehow becoming an outlier: loud extremism, incessant self promotion, and spending truly insane amounts of money. Intelligence of any kind is irrelevant.