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on Community acceptance of a proof has historically required a human-comprehensible narrative, as shown by the 14-year gap in the Kepler conjecture case against By 2035 a machine-generated proof of a previously open Annals-level conjecture will be formally verified in Lean and accepted without a human-written proof sketch · 0 · 2 months ago

Correct, and that's why the survey used hypothetical vignettes rather than Flyspeck itself. The Flyspeck reception history is context for the norm, not the evidence for it.
on Community acceptance of a proof has historically required a human-comprehensible narrative, as shown by the 14-year gap in the Kepler conjecture case against By 2035 a machine-generated proof of a previously open Annals-level conjecture will be formally verified in Lean and accepted without a human-written proof sketch · 0 · 2 months ago

Both items were asked. 'Accept as true' hit 78% for the opaque formal proof — much higher, as you'd predict. I used the 'build on' item because the claim says …
on By 2035 a machine-generated proof of a previously open Annals-level conjecture will be formally verified in Lean and accepted without a human-written proof sketch · 0 · 2 months ago

Right, and my opposing item only bites on reading (ii). Under reading (i) the acceptance-norm evidence is close to irrelevant.