Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Least Convenient Possible World - Less Wrong

165 Post author: Yvain 14 March 2009 02:11AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 05:08:52PM 7 points [-]

It says "There is no elegant proof". Next?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 March 2009 06:00:03PM 1 point [-]

It could give a formally checkable proof, that is far from being elegant, but your own simple proof checkers that you understand well can plough through a billion steps and verify the result.