LeCun: automated formal proofs open a new era for math; critics say question taste can't automate
AryHHAry · x · 2026-10-08
Yann LeCun argued mathematics is entering a new era where formal demonstration is largely automated and the focus shifts to new concepts, abstractions, definitions and conjectures — likening it to boats reducing the importance of swimming while enabling discovery of new lands. A commenter agreed the pressure shifts toward definitions and conjectures but pushed back: proof loops can be copied and accelerated, but the taste for which questions are worth asking doesn't come from throughput.
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