roystgnr comments on Real-life expected utility maximization [response to XiXiDu] - Less Wrong
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In this scene, does an automated proof verifier count as a mathematician? I'd agree that there's still neither a 100% chance of correctness nor a mystical state of pure logic at work here, but calling the process "intuition" still strikes me as very misleading.
But people don't work al all like automated proof verifiers. You couldn't feed most mathematical proofs to an automated proof verifier. And even when people fully formalize their proofs, they still rely on a learned and slightly fuzzy ability to assess the correctness of any single step. You can't run a proof-checking procedure on your brain. (You can emulate running that procedure but then you have to rely on your learned, slightly fuzzy ability to emulate any single step of the computation.)