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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Automated theorem proving by learning from examples - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: alexflint 16 February 2011 01:38PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 February 2011 05:39:10PM 0 points [-]

The problem of deciding which definitions are interesting is far from being formal.

Comment author: alexflint 16 February 2011 08:58:53PM 0 points [-]

Yes, and the problem of deciding which lemmas to prove and in general what structure to try for a proof is also far from begin formal. Verifying a proposed proof is the formal bit.