For-profit companies have a great potential for innovation within their fields, but Tim Ferriss notes that they often eschew this in favor of crushing their competitors, which he worries could happen to the field of psychedelic medicine. “In the end, the people who would most suffer… are the millions of people who most need psychedelic medicine,” he shares after recounting some dirty tactics for-profits employ, the most notorious being the ludicrous price increases for life-saving medicine. Read full article here
Research
Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
The Gilgamesh Epic, the oldest work of world literature, has been brought back to life by LMU researchers in the Electronic Babylonian Literature project. Using their new Fragmentarium tool, they have discovered hundreds of manuscripts, including the most recent tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic which dates from 130 BC – thousands of years after the earliest known version. This shows how highly valued the Epic was, even at a late period. With the public release of the Fragmentarium, anyone can now explore the thousands of cuneiform fragments and explore the ancient Babylonian literature. Read full article here
Merv
March 12, 2023
