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voxl 3 hours ago

It's a great comedy that we move the buck from "I don't trust the human proof" to "I don't trust the Lean proof" despite the level of trust dramatically increasing. Moving to HOL-light might be another modest increase in trust, but to pretend the implementation of HOL-light has never had bugs and it's kernel could never have a bug is hubris.

3192987 2 hours ago | parent [-]

We have a significant case split here:

A human mathematician writes a Lean proof:

- Unlikely that the mathematician would cheat with Lean bugs or even know how to find one. Trust increases.

An AI writes a Lean proof:

- AIs have been "ambitious" in their goals in the past and do know how to find Lean bugs and exploit them. Trust decreases.