"... a wide variety of “theories of everything” that have arisen from non-expert humans prompting large language models (LLMs) with a repeated series of inquiries, where the LLM will agree that the human’s ideas have merit and will fawningly tell the human that they’re truly onto something profound.
This is not 'vibe science' the way one might be able to 'vibe code' ..."
#EthanSiegel, 2025
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/10-scientific-truths-unpopular-2025/
No it absolutely is! For exactly the same reasons.
Similarly;
"Germs, particularly in the form of protists, bacteria, and viruses, are the most common underlying cause of transmissible infectious diseases in human beings."
#EthanSiegel, 2025
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/10-scientific-truths-unpopular-2025/
Take out the word "underlying" and I absolutely agree. The symptoms of these diseases are definitely being caused by overgrowths of one microbe or another. The question is, what causes that overgrowth?
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