A class of statement between conjecture and theorem
Parts of the math community, such as Henry Cohn and Grant Sanderson, are arguing that proofs have been a proxy for understanding, and now that proxy is broken. This is a response to LMs generating incomprehensible proofs, often formalized in Lean. While the proofs are verified, they lack the pedagogical value which has historically come along with new proofs. In the past we could typically assume at least one human in the world understood the novel insight required to produce a proof[1], but tha...
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