Flutterby™! : The machines are fine

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. On what "AI" and LLMs are doing to astrophysics.

David Hogg, in his white paper, says something that cuts against this institutional logic so sharply that I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it. He argues that in astrophysics, people are always the ends, never the means. When we hire a graduate student to work on a project, it should not be because we need that specific result. It should be because the student will benefit from doing that work.

Via.