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"proof shorter than 3^^^3 bits" means "proof shorter than 3^^^3 bits in some formal system S", right? Then I can write a program P that iterates through all possible proofs in S of length < 3^^^3 bits, and create a list of all TMs provable to terminate in less than 3^^^3 bits in S. Then P checks to see if P itself is contained in this list. If so, it goes into an infinite loop, otherwise it halts.
Now we know that if S is sound, then P halts AND can't be proven to halt using a proof shorter than 3^^^3 bits in S. What happens if we feed this P to your impostor oracle?