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kenferry • yesterday at 10:18 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Well, the point of the _computer_ formalization is that it's checkable.

An error in the formalization would be a bug in lean. Which, as we know, certainly seems plausible (I've mused on if these giant proofs are incentivizing LLMs to find lean bugs to exploit), but at least it's a smaller surface area.


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adrianN • today at 2:58 AM

An error in the formalization could also be that you formally prove something different from what you think you proved.