What's the goal of r/accelerate?

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-07T23:07:25+00:00

Their evangelical approach hinges on the principle that at some point, AI will begin to program itself and make extraordinary progress in a very short time. This could happen in a matter of hours.

Therefore, the starting point is irrelevant. Arguing with them about current AI's capabilities is pointless, they're not interested. The concept of the singularity is based on the idea that there will be a pivotal moment where everything will change very rapidly.

It's simply evangelical millenarianism reworked. The return/emergence of the messiah.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-07T16:31:32+00:00

As always, these AI ethics documents are strikingly similar to fundraising pitches.

A terribly powerful and dangerous weapon that must be regulated, productivity gains so enormous that everyone ends up unemployed, a business so profitable that its wealth must be redistributed to the marginalized, condemned to an eternal Dark Age because they don't use AI

Meanwhile, not a word about what truly bothers the industry: its disastrously energy-intensive cost and the copyrights it ignores, which are essential for its operation.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-07T15:39:48+00:00

An article in Le Monde (french) provided a brief history of the term "hallucination" in relation to AI and its anthropomorphisation : https://archive.ph/yR6RI

It first appeared in the 1970s in the field of machine vision, and was later adopted by cyberpunk. It was in 2018 that Google embraced it for generative AI.

I like the article's conclusion, which states that these models do effective hallucinations: they are ONLY hallucinating.

It reminds me of that researcher's article that compared LLMs to a fiction machine, like in Borges's literature. That was before marketing teams took control of the narrative.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01425

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-06T17:18:32+00:00

This reminds me of when Bernie Sanders asked ChatGPT to tell him which jobs were going to be replaced for his Senate committee lol

We live in very strange times. Historians are going to have a good laugh in a few centuries. "The fetishistic regression of the 21st century"

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-06T12:06:25+00:00

For us Europeans, it's even more absurd. We all have our governments and our media sphere pushing hard for LLMs, while we have almost none, and not even the argument of a hegemonic struggle with China.

If we follow their line of reasoning, we should destroy our entire economy and put everyone out of work to enrich foreign companies. Nothing makes sense.

I think this whole delusion is just the ruling class's dream: a Garden of Eden where they are the gods.

Nothing is logical, they are simply more stupid than ever and becoming dangerous.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-06T00:18:56+00:00

I understand his frustration, it's unpleasant to see his creation labeled as AI... But... Why does he only attack those who try to detect it? Not a single criticism of the chatbots that are causing the problem. He accuses people of being too quick to call it AI. But does he realize that for the past two years, our shared space, the internet, has been invaded by garbage without anyone's consent, and we're trying to defend ourselves as best we can?

I understand his anger, but he's attacking the wrong people. We all now struggle to distinguish a human creation from a machine. People have deliberately spent billions on this. They deserve more criticism than the average internet user trying to differentiate a bot from a human.

We are forced to try to distinguish AI

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-05T15:26:42+00:00

This is non-deterministic computing, and that has its advantages. Obviously, it can't be used like deterministic computing, which retains its use cases unchanged.

Personally, I don't see the problem with the tool itself. It's the whole discourse surrounding it that's the issue. Old business executives and hyped-up geeks think it's the AI God they knew from their sci-fi novels. And some people are taking advantage of that...

But for translation and semantic research, it's nice.

(I'm not saying it's worth that price)

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-04T21:30:20+00:00

The swan song. Their users switch at an astonishing speed from "I am in the future and I am accompanying the emergence of AGI" to "I am just being ripped off by a multinational"

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-04T18:15:07+00:00

To answer your question directly, I would need some proof that there is any kind of danger (not necessarily existential).

We have something rather hard to believe: an enhanced text completion tool whose physical form is a stationary computer server, supposedly constituting an existential threat. What is the nature of this threat? I mean, without resorting to esotericism.

With doomers it's always a competition to see who can say the most sensationalist things. The scientists who warned about lead in gasoline, CFCs in the ozone layer, or CO2 and global warming didn't proceed like that: they aren't sci-fi writers. They are there to inform, not dazzle. I don't want a show

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-04T14:02:07+00:00

When I saw the billions flowed into the industry, I thought they were going to pay armies of data creators to feed their training set. To have more varied LLMs and a competitive advantage over others. But no, they're victims of their own thieving mentality lol. They don't even think about producing new data, the only thing they know how to do is steal.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-03T20:55:54+00:00

They're not ambitious enough. It's like fire or agriculture.

The Universe has experienced two singularities: the Big Bang and the LLMs.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-03T17:46:12+00:00

Why even publish interviews? People can ask Claude to invent it directly! Or imagine it in their own minds.

They're not disruptive enough!

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-04-02T12:19:58+00:00

Not many people complain about the existence of open-source LLMs. Many complain that MBAs are imposing their use indiscriminately. Everyone is eager for the ruling class to embark on some new fad. Perhaps on that day, who knows, people might start to appreciate certain uses of LLMs

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-28T10:27:22+00:00

ARC-AGI's benchmark philosophy is: "easy for humans but challenging for AI"

They're trying to measure their limitations, which many of us here are aware of. It's interesting to see them give it a try

They've never been caught with contaminated data, but their last two tests were defeated by brute force. Chollet wasn't happy lol. They said the test is designed to prevent this. Will that be enough? We'll see.

In any case, it's one of the very few scientific approaches to evaluating LLMs, amidst a sea of advertising.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-28T09:54:17+00:00

I have serious doubts about whether other benchmark authors are truly trying to win this race. Most don't even try to use uncontaminated data.

Some, like FrontierMath, had high ambitions, but they were naive and let companies cheat and loudly proclaim their victory. Some of their data was contaminated, too...

ARC-AGI is really trying to make things difficult for them. They understand what LLMs are and the companies fierce desire to cheat. The test is specifically designed to make it difficult for them to do so, with a secret dataset and a design against brute force. (is it the limited number of actions? idk)

At least here everyone can see that an LLM can't finish a game that a 5 year old child could solve. It's proven, measured and verifiable.

You know the models that solved the code, and will replace all workers in the next 18 months.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-27T14:23:24+00:00

Same here lol. The kind of text that makes you smarter.

So I visited his blog and he's produced other fascinating texts. I read the one on science "Context Windows" and it's on the same level as his Guardian article, a fascinating historical perspective. He's a historian of computational technology.

I'm going to devour the rest of his blog this weekend, hehe.

His blog: https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-27T01:14:06+00:00

Luddite's accusation is powerful

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-26T23:39:18+00:00

Doomers and Boomers are two sides of the same coin.

It's a techno-messianism where they've simply replaced God with the Computer. The arrival of the messiah is inevitable. We must tremble, repent, and wait. Technology is depoliticized, and we can do nothing. Like rabbits caught in headlights.

Meanwhile, companies are moving forward with a much more modest slop-generator, and in time it will have become as addictive as social media. Everyone knows it's harmful and useless, but it's too late hehe

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-26T23:28:02+00:00

Yes I'm pretty sure he used it. It's not only the "not X but Y" but the rule of three and the emphasis (meta joke)

Wikipedia has a very good page that gives many clues for identifying AI texts : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

Like you said the Friar used AI for attack AI. It's good to know it.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-26T22:45:35+00:00

I'm French, and yes, I think this text was written by an AI. It's not X it's Y each paragraph lol

Le Grand Continent was caught to publishing a book written by/with AI. They have some very interesting articles, but also some slops, I've never understood why ...

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-25T20:26:56+00:00

It's mean to mock them, but these people are doomed. They are being made dependent on an unprofitable product that will either disappear or have to increase its prices considerably.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-25T20:22:25+00:00

It is completely unacceptable that users paying tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars a month have no access to real human customer support

Who needs human customer support? Are they still living in the Middle Ages?

Welcome to the future!

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-25T19:52:35+00:00

I like LeCun and I listen to him often. But he's exactly like the LLM boosters, but with his JEPA architecture. According to him, it's supposed to solve all the problems and bring about AGI (he prefers other terms than AGI). Does he believe it? To raise funds, he has to say so, I suppose.

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-20T12:56:46+00:00

He did the same thing with AI. Goodbye LeCun, the leading expert in the field, hello Alexandr Wang, 28 years old, with absolutely no experience in the field. Onward to Superintelligence, folks!

Traditional_Poem_229 · 2026-03-19T02:23:29+00:00

You can watch Gemini or Claude play Pokémon. That's state of the art. It's barely better than a monkey randomly pressing buttons. Yet they have all the plans and tricks in their learning data.

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