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Comment What a way to honor Chrysippus (Score 1) 50

The researchers hypothesize the text may be a copy of a work by one of the OG Stoics, Chrysippus (the same guy who, as legend as it, died from laughing at his own joke). No full text of his has ever been found before, so this could be big. And since he was a big determinist who believed divination to be the science of predicting future effects using clues from present-day causes, I think he'd be honored to have his work deciohered by a machine learning algorithm

Comment A Blue October (Score 5, Interesting) 236

The technical detail and intriguing blending of military tactics and politics engrossed me as a child. Perhaps more importantly, his political views that often shone through his writings challenged my own, which are often contrary to the ones he held, in a way that did not make me instinctively defensive or unreasonable. He was a great writer, indeed. RIP.

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