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I Locked an AI in 1900. Can It Beat Einstein to Relativity?I ran GPT-1900, a model that has only read books and newspapers from before 1900, on my own PC and handed it Einstein's clues one level at a time. The prompts for every level, every word it wrote, both judges' scores, and what Claude and GPT said when they pretended to live in 1899.
Can AI Crack Napoleon's Cipher? Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 AstraThe six letters from the AI codebreaking video: where to find the real 1809 letter, four cipher letters I wrote (copy the ciphertext, click for the answer), and the Kryptos K4 challenge prompt.
AI Just Read a Herculaneum Scroll Without Opening ItThe carbonized scroll from Vesuvius that AI read start to finish without unrolling it: every line scholars could read, in Greek, with an English translation, column by column.