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    Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI

    Dwarkesh Podcast · Mar 22, 2023 · 1 h 38 min
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    It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and how to account for her fall. If so, then the volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD - which entomb the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in South Italy - hold history’s greatest prize. For beneath those ashes lies the only salvageable library from the classical world. Nat Friedman was the…

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