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traeslast Saturday at 8:11 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm not an expert at it myself, but my understanding is there are numerous ways to "cheat" in a Lean proof (via `sorry` and similar). They're taking responsibility for fully verifying that none of these cheats were used (and that the theorem statements themselves were all correctly formalized.)


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rencrisatoday at 10:14 PM

Even beyond cheating with sorries or kernel bugs, the lean encoded theorems (or specifications) must be checked by humans to see if they truly mirror the real theorem authentically.