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1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

2. Science is a completely different epistemic enterprise. While I don't want to get into the morass of What Science Is, loosely speaking it involves amassing rigorous evidence in support of claims about the natural world.

3. And to do that, you want to *understand* and *justify* every step along the way (at least until you reach one of Latour's Black Boxes) because your end product is a theory, model, or explanation. You can't readily just hit RUN and see if it sorta works.

4. As such, talk doing about vibe science makes no more sense than talk about doing vibe mathematical proofs. As it happens, I get a lot of email from people doing vibe science already. They are convinced that they've discovered the fundamental truths that Darwin and Einstein missed.

5. ChatGPT has bullshitted them into believing that they're the next genius—but unlike previous generations of crackpot letter writers, they don't even pretend to understand their own "discoveries". They simply tell me that ChatGPT has a proof and they need my help getting the word out to the world.

I once tried to explain to my father why a Nobel prize in quantum physics did not credentialize someone on global warming. Please let him never discover Claude.

Ew, I have to ask, which Nobel laureate physicist went full climate-dipshit? I'll be surprised if "an expert in Subject A claims to be right about distantly related Subject B, while 99% of Subject B experts are wrong" isn't listed under a diagnosis of narcissism in the DSM-6.