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stevefan1999
1mo ago
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That's proof by contradiction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
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edanm
1mo ago
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
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