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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Do You Think It Can Be Done?

The scans are very high resolution. They're eight microns, eight micrometers. So we think the resolution is good enough, or at least right on the edge of good enough, that it should be possible. There's sort of like, seem to be six or eight pixels for voxels, I guess, per, you know, across an entire layer of papyrus. That's probably enough. And so I think it's just about a smart person solving this and a smart group of people, or just a dogged group of people who do a lot of manual work could also be true.

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