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by SwtCyber 462 days ago
If AI-generated proofs become incomprehensible to humans, do they still count as -math- in the traditional sense?
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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.
But I wonder if there's a distinction between a proof that is merely computationally intensive and one that is conceptually inaccessible