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JoshuaZ comments on Asking Precise Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 January 2011 01:28:08AM 1 point [-]

This is an issue that has already come up to some extent. The initial proof of the Robbins conjecture used automated proving systems for a large amount of it, and they made no intuitive sense. It took about 2 years for someone to grok the proof well enough to present a version that made sense to people.