PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER The Final Form of Software Development

"Formal proofs cannot, by themselves, establish that a machine-readable specification captures everything humans intended."

Buterin explicitly argues that raw human intentions cannot simply be supplied to a formal proof checker as though they were already mathematical specifications. This supports the manuscript's distinction between certifying formal consistency and determining whether the right goals have been expressed.

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