Lex Fridman
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You're going to get both of us canceled today.
So a lot of the cuneiform language is already deciphered.
Sure.
Can you speak to the deciphering process?
How hard is it?
Maybe take us to this place of, for you yourself, first learning the language, figuring out the puzzle of it.
How does it feel?
How does it look like to a brain that doesn't deeply understand it?
And how do you then piece stuff together?
Maybe you can go to the early days, sort of the Rosetta Stone of cuneiform also.
Amazing.
And they probably had a way to express that with sounds.
So what do you think is the motivation, the primary driver of developing written language?
Is it goes hand in hand with civilization?
All right, so deciphering, the process of deciphering.
Wait a minute.
More controversial statement for Murring today.
Henry Rawlinson doesn't deserve the credit for that?
That is a compliment.
I think you just complimented me.