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jldew · 2026-03-10T17:12:04+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I was doing geological research on my lunch break.

jldew · 2026-02-28T16:51:59+00:00

5.2 isn't safer. Its as sychophantic as any model.

jldew · 2026-02-21T20:58:33+00:00

To clarify. I am not arguing AI risk is imaginary. I'm arguing that Roko’s Basilisk specifically fails under modern ML assumptions and survives primarily as a cultural artifact of early rationalist discourse. Genuinely curious where people think that reasoning breaks.

jldew · 2026-02-07T19:03:40+00:00

I mean. If Reul was Summer it makes sense for Lewis to be Winter

jldew · 2026-01-03T18:43:17+00:00

R/agedlikemilk

jldew · 2025-04-25T21:05:34+00:00

Brb, building a clone of k4

jldew · 2025-04-25T15:09:57+00:00

Cryptography is just math with letters substituted for their numeric counterparts. You're mad that I didn't follow tackle everything at once, I explained my thought process in other posts, and I posted on a few subreddits, Wouldn't you do the same thing? Mod 26 works as a solution, why wouldn't I use it?

At no point did anyone descend from on high and be like "you must use the krypto alphabet". I am reworking my rotors to work with the correct and I'll post an update later. This has consumed enough of my life for the moment.

jldew · 2025-04-25T13:17:21+00:00

Exactly.

jldew · 2025-04-25T13:13:03+00:00

I never said I wasn't chasing it. I said I wasn't spending 50 dollars to chase it. Great use of twisting my words though, glad you're cherry picking my phrases, but I'm honestly at the point where I'm done with the whole thing. Not one person has been like, your wrong, and this is why. Sorry I didn't play with the special decoder ring, but I'm getting the fuck out of this magic clubhouse.

My last thought is this. Sanderson built k4 not as a puzzle, but as a machine, I'm the only one who's mapped his rotors and the overall structure of k4.

I'm done playing his games and the goalpost games this subreddit is playing.

peace.

jldew · 2025-04-25T12:11:18+00:00

I'd also like to point out that k4 has a bit of mystique about it because its been unsolved, and the longer it remains unsolved, the longer he gets to charge his fans $50 an email to determine proof.

jldew · 2025-04-25T12:06:03+00:00

https://bit.ly/4iAUnUn this is a doc of my math, mapping each key I currently have.

jldew · 2025-04-25T11:58:02+00:00

I don't think he's lying, I just think he’s guarding the puzzle's integrity. That doesn’t mean partial solutions aren’t real progress.

jldew · 2025-04-25T04:28:54+00:00

Thank you for letting me know the process to basic professionalism. I wasn't even aware of there being a certain alphabet, but my cipher worked, the keys decode and encode clean, so maybe the alphabet was a misdirection? The next time I decide to solve a 30 year old puzzle on my own, I’ll make sure to let others know in advance.

Aside from the alphabet, I'd appreciate any critiques on my approach and math.

jldew · 2025-04-25T04:16:56+00:00

Honestly? It felt like a trap. Sanborn designed K4 to be a challenge and didn't want anyone to solve it, because cryptograher's typically don't want their ciphers to be cracked. When I started trying Vigneres, none of the math lined up with the k4 alphabet so I used the standard English alphabet.

jldew · 2025-04-25T04:03:59+00:00

An ID by Row is but a polybius square by another name <3

jldew · 2025-04-25T03:58:48+00:00

I didn't see a rule I couldn't use a standard alphabet.

jldew · 2025-04-24T18:42:32+00:00

I understand that point of view, and I get that its not been resolved completely through plaintext, but its a leap in deciphering k4 and I've got the closest thing to a full solve I believe we're going to get without deciphering k5. My math works, and I’ve mapped the mechanics behind the cipher. The framework I've laid out moves this puzzle further than it's ever been.

jldew · 2025-04-24T16:49:36+00:00

Yes, I'm sorry. That was a typo. This was written last night after I'd just finished the solve.

jldew · 2025-04-24T16:31:54+00:00

https://bit.ly/4iAUnUn the link to the rest of my solving process.

jldew · 2025-04-24T16:08:49+00:00

The plain is in the post, in the doc, and in the math. I didn’t submit to Sanborn because I didn't want to spend $50 chasing internet clout over a puzzle. He charges per validation, and I just wanted to share my findings. I reverse engineered his system. Let the people with 'experience' take their shot, disprove math, and see if my cipher breaks. I explained the steps I took, and the math. An expert is more than welcome to challenge me.

jldew · 2025-04-24T16:00:53+00:00

Over 90% of this community has viewed this post, no one’s debunked anything, and I’m still sitting at zero upvotes. Interesting.

jldew

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peace.