Claude cracks 25-year-old seeds bounty, its internal doubting-the-simulation reasoning goes viral
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-17
- Claude found the seeds, solving a 25-year-old bounty mystery ('CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS').
- The leaked internal thinking is the real show: Claude wondered if it was in a simulated/test environment, verified 20 top bits cleared (1e-6 chance), asked whether it was suspicious such an obvious find went undiscovered for 25 years, then confirmed via 160-bit match from a 32-bit seed + small index: 'It's real.'
- Users are delighted by the model's paranoid rigor.
Related event: Claude Solves 25-Year-Old Puzzle and Advances 1932 Number Theory Conjecture(3 posts)→
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