The LLMs, and why do we do astrophysics?

Today my rant on LLMs and the practices of our field hit the arXiv . I was scared to post it, because it is such a weird contribution, and it is so revealing about myself and my own political positions and hangups. But I have to say: I got great and supportive feedback all day. I got two comments on saying ACAB in the literature. The Astronomer Royal of Scotland quoted (on BlueSky) the last…