[nybsjytm]

> A better question is what can happen when everybody has access to above average reasoning. Our society is structured around avoiding confronting people with difficult questions, except when they are intended to get the answer wrong.

What does this have to do with a hypothetical automatic theorem prover?

[whatshisface]

Logic is pretty much absent from our culture and daily life, but that could be due to its limited supply.

[nybsjytm]

Being logical in social life is pretty much completely different from being logical in a mathematical argument, especially in a formal theorem proving environment. (Just try to write any kind of cultural proposition in a formal language!)

[whatshisface]

That's the way things are now, but this regime came about when proving things took intense concentration and specialized skills that very few people had. Contrast going to look something up in a library with googling something during a conversation.