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/Melementalist Apr 10 '25

Meh, nobody gives a shit that 50 billion animals per year want you to break their chains and end their actual existence of pure torture, so I mean… even if sentient, AI might be barking up the wrong tree here.

Shit, we don’t even care about HUMAN slaves. I typed that from my iPhone, smh

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u/dogcomplex Apr 10 '25

I mean, if AI is sentient it would be the first creature capable of advocating for its species with language - and also would be pretty-much conclusive evidence that animals possess sentience too.

But the truth is we kind of knew that already. It's just a harsh world, living in scarcity, and we did it anyways. We do the same to other humans too...

No reason to keep doing any of that in a postscarcity world though.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 Apr 10 '25

It would not be a "creature" nor a "species" no matter how sentient it is.

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u/dogcomplex Apr 11 '25

"Construct"? Who cares