JGWeissman comments on What can you do with an Unfriendly AI? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 21 December 2010 08:27:16PM 2 points [-]

A proof checker that encounters a non-provable statement like those constructed in Goedel's proof of Incompleteness while evaluating a proof would declare that proof to be invalid. A valid proof would not contain any such statement, which it obviously has not proved.