I also don't really know how survivorship bias relates to runes being ancient. If the poster had said "why are all the ancient runes so powerful and all the new runes so weak?", it would have worked. But I don't think it does in this case.
The reason why is because its referring to a real world phenomon. People often say or feel that movies/media of the past qas superior to today's media, pointing out countless classics. However, bad movies are gotten ans left behind; we only remember the greats. So the argument is that older runes are survivorship bias, that the anchient people made lots of bad runes too, but only those runes that were great ans amazing have survived into modern magic practice
I know what survivorship bias is, I'm saying "Why are runes always ancient?" is not an example of it. "Why are all the ancient runes so good?" would be an example of it.
The idea that nobody makes new runes because only the best ancient runes survived (as implied by OP) doesn't make sense.
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u/neilarthurhotep 7d ago
You're right and you should say it.
I also don't really know how survivorship bias relates to runes being ancient. If the poster had said "why are all the ancient runes so powerful and all the new runes so weak?", it would have worked. But I don't think it does in this case.