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There is an old issue, that's related, why one should avoid using equality relations in AI used for creating a proof. It will go back and forth and fill the log with trivial statements before it comes to the right proof path. This might end up being the majority of the proof and could be an unbounded part. Then somebody has to read that and spend a good deal of time deciding what's trivial and what isn't. Whereas if you remove equality, you have something that isn't very natural.

This just generally reminded me about STOC. Need to read the last few years of the proceedings. I totally forgot about it. I like that 2026 will be held in the US. Some very fun to read papers at STOC. Even if they seem narrowly technical.

This made me think, especially about new browsers and all that.

There was a thread here on HN, a while back, that making a browser is too hard. Maybe not? Could it just be a lemons market?

"Oh, we're pivoting..." Sounds like a good idea as a business. But it seems to lead to a lemons market for the whole space, when everyone does it, does it not?

Could that be the "real" reason why so much harder to get a new cool product off the ground in 2025 as compared with 1995? The space was new in 1995 and too much trust hadn't been lost yet?