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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology micro-summaries for September 29, 2019

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In the past, I've read objections to automated theorem provers from the opposite perspective. I kept waiting for that article to bring it up, but they never did. You never know if there's a bug in the code that might lead to a bad proof, so you can't consider something to be proved unless it has been through human peer review.

For things with large real world costs and consequences, I think it's a good idea to have both human and automated inspection, but that's more of an engineering thing than number theory. There's a cost involved in translating from mathematical notation to a language that the theorem prover understands, so you have to choose the places where you're going to go through all that effort.

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Time (and thus money), as usual. However, you are right. As long as humans are still involved in the process, it is probably fine.