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There are people that believe that mathematics is actually useful, in ways that chess or art are not. I know, most mathematicians don't think so. But let us jus
by auggierose 2y ago
There are people that believe that mathematics is actually useful, in ways that chess or art are not. I know, most mathematicians don't think so. But let us just entertain this crazy thought for a moment. Then a proof is just a tool that tells us, oh, we have applied this piece of mathematics right. No understanding of the proof is actually required for that, and no one cares if some mathematician somewhere actually fully understands the proof. It will be OK, even expected, that the machine is better than us at finding and checking proofs.