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Solving the 1950 cipher meant to test life after death (creilly11235.github.io)

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[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

The star of the show was Claude (Anthropic), which wrote the search code and found the key. GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) checked the result independently.

Gross. The cypher is fun, though.