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Comment author: Lumifer 23 February 2016 06:35:52PM 6 points [-]

Behold and despair.

Comment author: username2 25 February 2016 03:27:42PM 3 points [-]

People optimizing for popularity and fame are most famous. What a surprise.

Comment author: MrMind 24 February 2016 10:51:57AM 2 points [-]

Amazingly depressing! Still, amazing.

Comment author: gwern 23 February 2016 07:49:48PM 2 points [-]

Compelling evidence that one should name one's son 'Stephen'.

Comment author: Houshalter 25 February 2016 12:11:51AM 1 point [-]

Not really surprising. The most popular anything will always be whatever pleases the lowest common denominator.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 24 February 2016 09:12:11PM *  1 point [-]

It holds before us a mirror or 'progression' of civilization.

ADDED: A friend mentioned that todays predominance of sports (and actors before that) is more an indication of contemporary interests that will be forgotten before long. Probably the athens also had sport stars at their time that were talked about a lot.

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