Dwarkesh

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1,722 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 25 Nov

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Dwarkesh Podcast · Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper · 24 Apr 2025 podcast

Yeah, the longitude prize and so forth.

That's right.

Yeah.

So a previous guest of mine, Nat Friedman,

I don't know if you saw this, but he launched this challenge called the Vesuvius Challenge.

Oh, yeah.

This library of Herculaneum in 79 AD was buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius when the volcano erupted.

Speaking of volcanoes.

And now they figured out with modern techniques how to read the burnt scrolls.

And it is supposedly the biggest...

library of classical text ever.

It was like double the amount of classical text we have.

As a scholar of ancient Rome, what would you personally find most fascinating?

What are you excited to find from this data?

So I wonder if it's like the Greeks had a science but not the people to sustain a modern economy, or not a modern, but even a sort of like industrial economy, and then the Romans had the people but not the science.

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