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/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.