The four color theorem was proven by exhaustive computer verification of enormous numbers of cases without generating human-comprehensible insight, and conceptually elegant proofs for it have never been found, suggesting some problems may only admit brute-force solutions.
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“Some problems may only be solvable by splitting into an enormous number of cases and doing brute force, uninsightful computer analysis on each case.”
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