
How to Invent Everything: Ryan North
Long Now: Conversations at The Interval
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What's on the Rosetta Stone?
The Rosetta Stone took 50 years of decoding just to get back to something even with parallel scripts. People always get a very offended to learn that we have collected you know two or three thousand versions of the story of Genesis as the parallel text. But when they get offended I asked them what was on the Rosetta Stone and they don't know. You guys can answer boring tax law. It's a boring stone.
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