Hallucinating Proof Agents Could Become Discovery Engines
kevrussell · x · 2026-07-14
The core argument of this post: - An agent that "hallucinates beautiful proofs" is inherently dangerous, as it might generate elegant but invalid results. - However, if the surrounding ecosystem prevents such proofs from passing review, cross-checking, and validation, it could actually become a "discovery engine": generating candidates first, then using review/validation mechanisms to filter out errors and retain genuinely valuable discoveries. The cited context mentions a research/proof sprint completion, releasing v1.1 with a DOI, runnable certificates, validation scripts, and formal records of certain results, emphasizing a reproducible empirical workflow of "clone, make verify, trust your machine."
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