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czgovtoday at 2:37 PM0 repliesview on HN

If a counterexample to a conjecture is found then all work toward proving consequences of the conjecture will cease. No one is trying to discover consequences of the Jacobian Conjecture now.

At some point an AI will prove a result that is so long and complicated that no human will understand it. This should not preclude people from using that result. In general, whenever the body of knowledge is increased it is a good thing. Even if it isn’t increased by humans.