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stevefan1999
72 days ago
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture...
That's proof by contradiction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
edanm
72 days ago
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No, the thing the LLM did is not a proof, it's the opposite. It's proving that the conjecture is false.
Reductio ad absurdum is a technique to
prove
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