coder / lawyer. research at @paradigm. automated research reply guy
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The coolest thing about not looking at the Kryptos secret is that I can fully engage with all the solvers reaching out to share the progress they've made
Knowing can be a curse
We have the solution to Kryptos, one of the last great cryptography puzzles.
But it’s a secret, even to us.
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I solved PK 1, 2, and 3... I haven't been able to solve the rest yet.
Some people solved PK 7.
There's a $1000 prize for whoever solves each PK first.
Besides the prizes, it's fun to see the AI hallucinating trying to solve them
Jun 12
We love puzzles, so we acquired the secret to one of the most notorious puzzles in cryptographic history.
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encrypted message on it. The final 97 characters of it have never been solved.
Here's what we're doing with the solution.
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Jun 13
It is so funny how anthropic just willingly forfeited the vibes frontier this week and then on Friday night the trump admin, which hates them, handed it right back to them
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we are speedrunning creating the Zones of Thought from the Vinge universe. you will only be able to think superhuman thoughts in America
Jun 13
NEWS: The Trump administration is blocking foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing Anthropic's most advanced AI models
W/@m_ccuri
axios.com/2026/06/12/anthrop…
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What did he see
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i hope there are teams at frontier labs shoving wacky stuff like kryptos K4 or the voynich manuscript into their latest models to see what happens. what other famous unsolved puzzles / mysteries like this are there
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Jun 12
Quite literally one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. An unsolved crypto system that even the NSA can’t crack. And Dan had team have acquired the solution. But didn’t look at it! But they have created a path for people to try to crack it using some fancy cryptography. Based.
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There is a mysterious copper sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encoded message. Even after 35 years, the final piece of the message remains unsolved.
We bought the solution from the artist who created it, encrypted it so that even we don’t know the answer, and set up a way to automatically check solutions.
To help hone your skills, we created a new challenge: ten Kryptos-like puzzles of increasing complexity and difficulty. The first person to solve each puzzle will win $1,000, with a $10,000 total prize pot.
Watch the full video, learn about Kryptos and its creator, Jim Sanborn, and try your hand at the puzzles: paradigm.xyz/kryptos
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Jun 12
Four out of ten puzzles have fallen
Jun 12
To go with Kryptos, we launched a challenge with ten brand-new Kryptos-like puzzles.
The first solver of each puzzle gets a $1,000 prize.
paradigm.xyz/kryptos-ctf
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Jun 12
Play the Kryptos CTF!
There is a mysterious copper sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encoded message. Even after 35 years, the final piece of the message remains unsolved.
We bought the solution from the artist who created it, encrypted it so that even we don’t know the answer, and set up a way to automatically check solutions.
To help hone your skills, we created a new challenge: ten Kryptos-like puzzles of increasing complexity and difficulty. The first person to solve each puzzle will win $1,000, with a $10,000 total prize pot.
Watch the full video, learn about Kryptos and its creator, Jim Sanborn, and try your hand at the puzzles: paradigm.xyz/kryptos
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Jun 12
To go with Kryptos, we launched a challenge with ten brand-new Kryptos-like puzzles.
The first solver of each puzzle gets a $1,000 prize.
paradigm.xyz/kryptos-ctf
Jun 12
We love puzzles, so we acquired the secret to one of the most notorious puzzles in cryptographic history.
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encrypted message on it. The final 97 characters of it have never been solved.
Here's what we're doing with the solution.
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Jun 12
We designed these puzzles in part to help people make more powerful automated solvers.
A standard technique for building better tools is to set up evals to test whether your technique is actually working.
If you can beat all 10, you may be closer to being able to beat Kryptos!
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Jun 12
We love puzzles, so we acquired the secret to one of the most notorious puzzles in cryptographic history.
Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encrypted message on it. The final 97 characters of it have never been solved.
Here's what we're doing with the solution.
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Jun 11
Releasing this tomorrow
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Looking for an engineer with TEE experience (or confidence in your ability to learn it) to hack with us on something extremely cool
Not blockchain-related and will never become a company, but can compensate you for your time, plus will get to be part of a unique piece of history
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Jun 11
I find this observation from Scott Aaronson very unsettling
There's a possibility that some famous conjectures (like Collatz or Goldbach) might be like this—true for mundane statistical reasons, but unprovable
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Jun 11
If you’re proud of your really sophisticated skill or harness, try benchmarking it against a simple one-sentence prompt as a sanity check
Codex, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Pro are really, really good
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I don't have a harness. But what I do have are a very particular set of Skills
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