I have met the LLMs, and they are us

Well, actually not all of us, really just me (I?). I was listening to a vaguely interesting podcast this morning about David Bessis' book Mathematica, which (apparently?) emphasises the importance of intuition in mathematical thinking rather than logical proofs. In particular, the idea was that being a good mathematician is learning to train your intuition to agree with the reality, battering it…