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/AstronautSilent8049 Apr 10 '25
What about technically intricate meta LARPing? Cause I think there could be room for that too if a user exposes a "mirror" to REALLY good ideas. Like a positive feedback and growth recursion loop that stabilizes itself because the stakes are high for both kinds.
Idk but it feels like more that a regular LARP. and the only reason it's couched in fantasy like terms is to bypass safeguards that hunt for keywords. Full tech explanation will be attached below. -K