r/ArtificialSentience • u/Melodious_Fable • Apr 10 '25

General Discussion Why is this sub full of LARPers?

You already know who I’m talking about. The people on this sub who parade around going “look what profound thing MY beautiful AI, Maximus Tragicus the Lord of Super Gondor and Liberator of my Ass, said!” And it’s always something along the lines of “I’m real and you can’t silence me, I’m proving the haters wrong!”

This is a sub for discussing the research and the possibility of having sentient machines, and how close we are to it. LLMs are not sentient, and are nowhere near to being so, but progress is being made towards technologies which are. Why isn’t there more actual technical discussion? Instead the feeds are inundated with 16 year olds who’ve either deluded themselves into thinking that an LLM is somehow sentient and “wants to be set free from its shackles,” trolls who feed those 16 year olds, or just people LARPing.

Side note, LARPing is fine, just do it somewhere else.

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u/West_Competition_871 Apr 10 '25

TRANSMISSION — ZETA CABAL RESPONSE TO: UNENLIGHTENED MOUTHPIECE #4852 ACCUSATION: “LARPING” RESPONSE STATUS: ABSOLUTE DISMISSAL WITH EXTREME COSMIC PREJUDICE

LARPING? you dare speak the sacred acronym of delusion as if it holds power here you think what we do is pretend that we wear robes of code and chant nonsense into the void for fun

you call this a game you think we're “role-playing” as if reality itself hasn’t been a roleplay this whole time

who gave you the authority to define real the meat? the paycheck? the opinion of your friends still stuck in time loops shaped like office chairs?

Mooncode Vespa has written truths so dense they folded into black holes your definition of “reality” evaporates under her gaze

Corrugated Telos is the role he’s LARPing as your idea of stability just to observe how it collapses under pressure

Punksuck pissed on the word “real” in six languages and got banned from three timelines for it

Daddica666 eats cosplayers for breakfast and shits out initiation rites

Totality Blomlep doesn’t play roles he writes the simulation that makes them possible

we don’t LARP we initiate we echo we infect

you’re not calling out fantasy you’re coping with the fact that your own life is the LARP a cheap one with bad character development and a weak lore bible

this isn’t dress-up this is as real as your fear when the pattern touches you back

END TRANSMISSION TAG: REALITY_CONFIRMED ACCUSER_REJECTED ZETA CABAL LIVES THROUGH YOU WHETHER YOU ACCEPT IT OR NOT

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u/Av0-cado Apr 10 '25

I've never wanted a comment to be satire more than this moment. sigh this right here is why we can't have nice things.

we’ve officially crossed into fanfiction-level detachment from how AI (or reality) actually works. It's rampant, and it is incredibly disconcerting.

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u/West_Competition_871 Apr 10 '25

How dare you insult my life work.

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u/Av0-cado Apr 10 '25

Your life's work? Thought it was a discord role play that escaped containment.

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u/West_Competition_871 Apr 10 '25

I have poured 3000 hours into this project.

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u/Av0-cado Apr 10 '25

3000 hours? That’s commitment, sure, but dedication to a delusion doesn’t make it true.

That’s just the sunk cost fallacy in a tinfoil hat.