I don’t mind if AI is used for cool shit like this, I bet if we limited it to these types of applications we wouldn’t need 20 data centers positioned all around my city, destroying the environment with noise pollution, wasting something like 15 million gallons of water EVERY DAY during a severe drought, all while getting discounted electricity that the rate hikes on regular citizens pay for.

Based on the handwriting style, Nicolardi thinks that PHerc. 1667 dates to the second or third century B.C.E., which would make it one of the oldest scrolls in the library. The title and author have been lost to history, but experts suspect it wasn’t written by Philodemus. Perhaps, they theorize, Chrysippus was the author.

Chrysippus was a foundational figure in Stoicism, but modern scholars only know of his writings from references in other works. “To have access to a source text rather than quotes and summaries, which can be modified or interpreted by other writers, is very important,” Thomas Coward, a classicist at the University of Bristol in England who isn’t part of the Vesuvius Challenge, tells New Scientist’s Hayley Bennett.

Source1: https://lemmy.world/post/48737520
Source2: Smithsonian Magazine [2026-06-26]