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homeslice1234yesterday at 8:01 PM0 repliesview on HN

> It would be fundamentally wrong for you to ask what's the value of solving the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture..

I'm not sure about this, TBH I ask myself this quite frequently. In a world where machines are routinely solving very high end math problems every day, producing more proofs than humans would ever really be able to absorb or fully understand.... would that be a good thing? Would that in itself be valueable? It feels like that is a probable future, but I'm not sure that would actually be something we want. I think there's probably more than "value is that it's solved"