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891 million tokens over 3 weeks did not decipher the Indus Valley script

Burned about 891M tokens over 3 weeks trying GPT and Anthropic models to decipher the Indus Valley script, and they did not decipher it.

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  1. He burns about 891 million tokens over 3 weeks trying frontier models on the undeciphered script
  2. They do not decipher it

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Some problems eat tokens the way the sea eats coastline.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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