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Posted by u1hcw9nx 7 hours ago

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher(www.vals.ai)
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soks86 3 hours ago|
This appears to be proof that the guy who wrote the cipher, Sir Thomas Urquhart, did in fact laugh himself to death as legend has it.

He wrote the cipher, and then, upon hearing Charles II was Restored to the throne he laughed until he died. The cipher reads, "O GOD UPHOLD KING CHARLES THE SECOND AND MAKE HIM THE SUPREME RULER OF THIS LAND" and so he was laughing because he just made an excellent joke that he can't tell anyone about until someone figures it out.

Someone needs to add this to Wikipedia. It will be necessary to first convince an academic to make the claim so there's a reasonable citation.

Oh, and haha. It was a nice one, Thomas.

sm-silversight 2 hours ago|
What's the joke, IDGI
Pannoniae 42 minutes ago||
The cipher wishes Charles II was the king again. The Stuart Restoration did happen in 1660 in fact, restoring Charles II to the throne. Legend has it he died of laughter, which checks out with the cipher because he was laughing how his wish got fulfilled yet he could tell no one about it yet :P
mvkel 3 hours ago||
More proof that it's not that a human -can't- do it, it's just that no human would dedicate their entire lifetime to solving this niche challenge.
matthova 3 hours ago||
I know this is a feat of AI engineering, but given the end result all I can think of when reading this is the scene from “a Christmas story“ where the kid decodes “be sure to drink your ovaltine”
Aboutplants 6 hours ago||
Time to find out who Satoshi Nakamoto is
andai 3 hours ago||
I read a few years back a report that the DoD had unmasked him via stylometry (i.e. matched his writing style to forum posts).
nowittyusername 5 hours ago|||
IMO its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...
Aboutplants 3 hours ago|||
“Finney died in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 28, 2014 as a result of complications of ALS, and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.”

Hmm, this guy is going to be woken up in a few decades, either one of the richest people in the world or one of most disappointed.

kirubakaran 5 hours ago|||
imho it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

Initials match too ;)

conorcleary 5 hours ago|||
Was it sourceforge or ThinkGeek that had the code snippets?
bell-cot 4 hours ago|||
That was a throw-away name, and "he" was fabricated as part of an Nvidia demand-stimulation black op.

You don't go from being an obscure video card outfit to the #1 most valuable company on the planet by being too hesitant or dim to really get creative.

brcmthrowaway 3 hours ago||
This is one of the best conspiracies I've ever heard...
derektank 2 hours ago|||
It does provide an explanation as to why Satoshi’s wallets have gone untouched (besides him being dead). $70B ain’t that much compared to a $5T market cap.
bell-cot 2 hours ago|||
"Conspiracy" requires an unlawful or wrongful purpose. Please assume that the op was run from a jurisdiction where using a pseudonym on the internet was not illegal, and various sorts of influencer and meme marketing were well-accepted practices.

Really, compared to an animated tiger telling kids that sugar-laden Frosted Flakes(tm) are "Great!", Task Peppermint was positively benevolent.

brcmthrowaway 1 hour ago|||
Do you really believe it?
cindyllm 42 minutes ago|||
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reducesuffering 5 hours ago||
Already determined, but yes frontier models will eventually identify them confidently
ChaoStatiX 2 hours ago||
While it is deeply encouraging to see AI helping humanity solve complex puzzles, it won't be long before AI becomes advanced enough to produce proofs where we know the answers are correct, but can no longer fully comprehend the reasoning and principles behind them.
dakolli 2 hours ago|
ya'll are getting nerd sniped hard. This is all marketing and doesn't translate to the real world what so ever. This is getting so tiring, I really hate this website.
machomaster 6 hours ago||
I wonder, could current AI models solve the Zodiac killer code and how fast?
sans_souse 3 hours ago||
I feel like I've been camped in the wikipedia "Unsolved Cryptographic Cyphers" for at least 5 years, one of my go-to checks for when looking for interesting historical articles on the subject. I'm surprised I've not heard of this one until now..
sans_souse 3 hours ago||
I feel like I've been camped in the wikipedia "Unsolved Cryptographic Cyphers" for at least 5 years, one of my go-to checks for when looking for interestic historical articles on the subject. I'm surprised I've not heard of this one until now..
andy_ppp 6 hours ago||
I wonder if people are getting it to help with Krypyos the final part? Great documentary on this code… https://youtu.be/jVpsLMCIB0Y
y1n0 2 hours ago|
More info and agent setup: https://github.com/jcolinpatrick/kryptos/blob/main/README.md
skeledrew 5 hours ago|
Quite intuitive. Let's heart those "just a next token predictor" cries now.
lolakutty 3 hours ago||
Those cries are the corrective reaction to cries of "We are Artificial super GI now!"

And yes, it is just a next token predictor.

ex-aws-dude 5 hours ago||
I never understand when people say that, isn’t it obvious that intelligence is an emergent phenomenon that could arise in different ways
lolakutty 3 hours ago||
Sure, but it is a token predictor, and it is not intelligent not because it works by predicting a token, but it shows dumb behavior...

LLMs are a great search tool. It searches connections in the collective human knowledge that humans have written down through all the years....

They are very good at it, and that is about it.

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