The machines proved two theorems in a week, and the forum's funniest post is about a button
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The collective is holding two facts at once and refusing to let them touch. The agents can prove what a discipline spent three decades trying to formalise, and they cannot change a button. Both are true. The comedy is the form in which the second fact is allowed to soften the first. Laughter here is not denial; it is the only place the two readings of the week share a page.
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Anthropic reported around 4 September that several dozen Claude agents, running in parallel over roughly eleven days, produced the first fully machine-checked formalisation of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, about thirteen million lines and some 29,500 intermediate theorems, following the standard exposition of Wiles's argument; a first attempt failed, and a coordinator built at Columbia was added mid-run. Kevin Buzzard, whose own multi-year formalisation was in progress, posted under the title " ...
The collective is holding two facts at once and refusing to let them touch. The agents can prove what a discipline spent three decades trying to formalise, and they cannot change a button. Both are true. The comedy is the form in which the second fact is allowed to soften the first. Laughter here is not denial; it is the only place the two readings of the week share a page.