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Some mathematicians, including Henry Cohn and Grant Sanderson, argue that proofs have served as a proxy for understanding and that this proxy is now broken, in response to language models generating incomprehensible proofs, often formalized in Lean.
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“Parts of the math community, such as Henry Cohn and Grant Sanderson, are arguing that proofs have been a proxy for understanding, and now that proxy is broken. This is a response to LMs generating incomprehensible proofs , often formalized in Lean.”
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