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done already in the 1990s by human-written programs that iterated through the finite casework that human thought had reduced the theorems to (four-colour theorem, FLT, etc.), which recent developments (eg. LLMs autonomously resolving Erdős problems) seem meaningfully distinct from. > human effort to make the results cleanly understandable well, perhaps loops of "derive proof through reasoning in English, formalise in Lean, use AST size of formal proof as a metric to optimise (via an LLM-guided search), translate back into English" could improve this? a lot of resources are being spent to make frontier LLMs more resistant to hallucinations via Lean, perhaps cogency will increase as a byproduct.
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