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benbreen
46,167karma·2,755submissions·June 2, 2014
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Not quite smoking (in the sense of using pipes), as he describes them as throwing cannabis seeds on hot stones and inhaling the smoke. I mention it in my Lapham's Quarterly article: “The Scythian…
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Yes, this is right on (and great book rec - Mike Jay is a friend and a brilliant writer on drug history). The concept of smoking cannabis is not quite so surprisingly new as that of smoking opium (w…
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"If this knowledge is valuable, the best way to show a support for it is hiring somebody to work full time on this problem." Why not have both? I.e. academics and students dedicated to the f…
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This is awesome, thank you! Or should I say gratias tibi :)
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This is the result when I asked GPT-4 to write "a new, original passage in latin which is inspired by Del Rio's style. Make the Latin elegant and lucid, with witty turns of phrase," the…
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Well, that's just it - I use Google Translate all the time to translate historical texts, and for whatever reason, GPT-4 and Claude both work better. Since I deal with texts that feature archaic …