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		sigmoid10 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cultural divide between mathematics and AI We already have proofs by exhaustion that could only ever be verified using computers. Some people would argue they are not "elegant" but I don't think anyone would argue they are not math.

SwtCyber 9 months ago [–]

But I wonder if there's a distinction between a proof that is merely computationally intensive and one that is conceptually inaccessible

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