[datsci_est_2015]

Well that’s why I provided the caveat “specifically not pseudoscience”, which is, as you described, “just making stuff up nobody can verify”.

[famouswaffles]

If you say not pseudoscience and then make up pseudoscience anyway then what's the point? The field has not advanced anywhere enough in understanding for convoluted explanations about how LLMs can never do x to be anything but pseudoscience.