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dbmikusyesterday at 10:58 PM0 repliesview on HN

Pretty close, but IMO not quite. A math proof in and of itself is useless unless either:

   (A) it furthers human knowledge
   (B) it gets used in applied sciences, engineering, etc.
If you merge and deploy code, you have released a tool that can be used. If you ship a gibberish math proof, it's not useful unless someone else can understand and deploy it to some other means. Now, it's possible AI could understand and make use of the math proofs, even if we can't, which refutes some of my hair splitting :)