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amelius 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Next step: "the AI can't find a counterexample, so the conjecture must be true!"

ak_111 19 days ago [–]

This is not new, most famous conjectures are believed to be true mainly because an already enormous brute force search was conducted finding no counter-example.

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