Why would it not run with your provided hypothesis? It even added an explicit hint that this is a hypothetical scaling exercise, and that real hardware does not

Why would it not run with your provided hypothesis? It even added an explicit hint that this is a hypothetical scaling exercise, and that real hardware does not scale like that. But generally, sure, you can make LLMs say many false things, sometimes even by just asking them a question in good faith, and it certainly casts some doubt on a blog post quoting an LLM as a source.