“as too in the case of food, we do not right away believe things that are scarce to be absolutely more pleasant than those which are abundant.”
Three community contributors, including a 21-year-old SpaceX intern and a PhD student in Berlin, split $700,000 for pulling more than 2,000 characters out of a carbonized scroll. The first readable text from inside a Herculaneum scroll in 2,000 years is an Epicurean arguing that scarcity doesn’t make things taste better. Roughly 95% of the scroll is still unread. The papyrologists had centuries and the ML kids took ten months.