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I think it would be fun to construct a similar conjecture where the same kind of probabilistic analysis says that it's very likely to be true but it is in fact false.
How can he integrate the probability expression rather than do a summation? Surely there are many real values of x and y that lead to perfect powers? Yet the probability tends rapidly to zero.