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mittenscyesterday at 8:21 AM1 replyview on HN

There's a difference in math between giving just the answer to a problem and doing it properly/elegantly.

So yeah, generated machine-valid proof can be denied if it's incomprehensible, same as human machine-valid proof can be denied for same reasons.


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_zoltan_yesterday at 8:38 AM

there is a difference but it's overrated. if a theorem is proven, then, as OP said, the theorem is the interface, no matter where the proof is.

just as we don't re-prove Fermat's little theorem every time I use it in a proof, because well, it's a theorem.

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