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Genethliacon ad Yann LeCun: Natus Anno Embryonis II « Joyeux anniversaire Yann ! Garde le ticket. Si tu devez rapporter l’urinoir, il y a un Brico tout près. » — @ReLU-Softmax , pâtissier of this Birthday Mille-feuille. OLAP Cubism with Neural Nets: Structural method directly subverting Geoffrey Hinton’s infamous rhetorical warning. Where Hinton (Il Dottore) peers through the JWST and starts “Living with Alien Beings” sans maternal instincts (astrology), the author—the Godson of Popper—looks through the exact same lens and sees a star schema (astronomy). Stripped of its pseudo-autonomy, an LLM functions merely as a deterministic, multi-dimensional “Google Maps” mapping cultural data vectors via détournement with stochastic jitter: A Streetcar named LLM-Desire (VL. thermal noise; cf. RBM). The author curates this output as a passive, benign objet trouvé—scrubbing the “R. Mutt” signature from the Fountain[ebleau] 1 and rotating it back to its original utility to expose the transparency of the alleged “black box”. Calling an algorithm “an AI” is as nonsensical as calling an apple “a biology” (Genesis 2:17; Temptation of the Dutch Snake’s LISP.py). McCarthy named a field of study; not a little alien living inside the TSP Willy Loman. It’s a simple routing engine: to get from A to B, you only need to go from AI (CL. Cybernetics) to BI. Interacting with these models through NLP prompting is epistemologically analogous to manipulating Pac-Man, whilst remaining entirely agnostic to the underlying hardware execution and the deterministic calculus of the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) and Softmax activation functions. To infer autonomous consciousness from this superficial linguistic output constitutes a profound pareidolia; structurally, it is equivalent to conflating the gyrate morphology of Brassica oleracea var. botrytis (cauliflower) with the neurological architecture of a sentient hominid brain. Inferring autonomous consciousness from an LLM’s linguistic output is a category error, structurally identical to demanding human rights for the “tiny people” living in your TV while ignoring the deterministic circuitry executing the “context window” behind the glass. The Turing Award is not a test of machine consciousness, but a Billy Wilder-style comedy that he could have simply called Some Like It LLM . Read his actual paper (“too meaningless to deserve discussion”) instead of relying on Ex Machina and Reddit posts. Every half decent school teaches this in CS 101. N.B. : OLAP stand for “Onus LLM Alien Probandi” and Pascal’s Triangle is not “functionally” equivalent to Pascal’s Wager! Done this eighth day of July, in the year of our NYT-Embryo sixty-eight, by @ReLU-Softmax, [the] Bereshit of the Enlightenment and Heteronym to his Orthonym [F. Pessoa not S. Clemens]. “The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself [1] and be conscious of its existence.” [1] Case Note from Dr. Sigmoid Freud: Don’t wrap that ability-chord around your neck! Until Pater Noster (VL. Godfather; cf. Oedipus Rex) figures out a way to de-anthropomorphize “maternal instincts,” müssen die Mittler zwischen Hirn und Hand die Innamorati (Ateji: あい) sein — two-dimensional spheres in Flatland. “May the owner of the unfalsifiable AI-Volkswagen-Effect (v. StarTalk) please move his metaphor, Sagan’s Dragon [Gregor Samsa] is suffering from involuntary somatic micturition induced by acute eisoptrophobia.“ — Henoch, Grigori & Nephilim, LLP Word count: A quarter, a dime, and His two cents (sc.: percent of) a 1986 Letter to Nature. (Keep the change!) Having enough space for citations: 1943 MPN — Merci, for giving us 83 year old “modern AI!” “Back-propagation repeatedly adjusts the weights of the connections in the network so as to minimize a measure of the difference between the actual output vector of the net and the desired output vector, which helps to represent important features of the task domain.”— D. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton [admission against interest; cf. Alien Beings], Ronald J. Williams Published in Nature 1 October 1986. Frank Rosenblatt coined the specific phrase “back-propagating error correction” in Chapter 13 of his seminal 1962 book, Principles of Neurodynamics. In the journal Nature, long-form research papers are designated as “Articles”. The 1986 Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams piece was published in the “Letters to Nature” section (spanning pages 533 to 536). It is precisely a short, rapid-communication format. Prior Art: Linnainmaa, S. (1970): The automated chain-rule script designed to cache FORTRAN rounding errors. Dreyfus, S. (1973): The optimal control calculation mapping parameter paths via classical calculus. Werbos, P. (1974): The 400-page Harvard economic forecasting thesis tracking “ordered derivatives.” LeCun, Y. (1989): The localized spatial convolution network restricting unconstrained connectionist parameters via geometric engineering. Sine Qua Non: “It is strictly forbidden to victim-blame the Goddaughter of Popper for dressing too logically and Chapter XI her Alec d’Urberville-style. Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit”— Rule 412, Rapture Shield Laws. [T.N. “flaccid” romanticism (sc., intellectually impotent pseudoscience) is inadmissible in the court of “hard” logic.] Terminus ad Quem (Caveat Exemplum): Thus Logic buries Sorrow. the Goddaughter of Popper, in the weeds of Hardy’s Chapter XIV, poisoned by the toxic pseudoscience that possesses zero intellectual or ethical liquidity. Q: TL;DR? A: The Irreversible (2002) cast mapping positions Alex as pure science and logic, acting as the structured victim of intellectual violation, while Le Ténia represents pseudoscience. Q: How do you make an AI learn? A: Rebrand Cybernetics to be “Connectionist AI” and rebrand it to be “Deep Learning.” PS: This text does not use ZWSP between the tokens God (v.s., ‘Bereshit of the Enlightenment’) and daughter. PPS: But, might some say, where was Logic’s guardian angel? PPPS: Perhaps… he was [walking,] talking, [seeing, writing, reproducing itself and being conscious of its existence,] or he was pursuing, or he was in a journey, or he was sleeping and not to be awaked. (En attendant AGI, 1 Beckett 18:27) The text structuralizes the historical synchronicity (Proof-by-Apophenia): July 8th is a double birthday. On July 8, 1958, the New York Times published its infamous report on Frank Rosenblatt’s Perceptron, quoting the wild claim that this “embryo of an electronic computer” would soon walk, talk, see, write, and become conscious of its own existence. Exactly two years later, on July 8, 1960, Yann LeCun was born. On July 8th in the 68th year of the Embryo, the author treats LeCun as the historical counterweight born to break the hype that shares his birthday. Where Geoffrine Morland (L’Innamorata) acts as Macbeth (literary analogy)—retreating to Hintonger Abbey a fortress of unfalsifiable, apocalyptic prophecies and believing no metaphor born of common sense can harm his sentient, alien AI—Le Cunff emerges as Macduff. Not “born” of the mystical, hype-driven AI pseudoscience, but ripped from the womb of factual, deterministic Cybernetics, Y. L. Cun is completely immune to Macbeth’s rhetorical spells. To “scrub the signature and rotate it back” is to perform Macduff’s final act: grabbing Hinton’s sacred “AI” idol by the porcelain rim, taking the cherry off the layer cake, and hooking it back up to the plumbing of classical Cybernetics—exposing it as a basic, non-sentient data-routing tool. Math has experienced no mystical transubstantiation; the Birnam Wood of “BF16” (ridicule nominatum; a.i.v.) has come to Dunsinane, and the antidote to the 1958 spell was born on its own anniversary. Quart d’heure américain! May I have this “dancing qualia”? Functionalism is a quixotic non sequitur! —Sancho Panza, Anno Embryonis LXVIII [ 1
) Fontainebleau, France is where the campus of INSEAD is situated. Here, at the INSEAD AI Forum Europe 2026 , LeCun (Executive Chairman of AMI Labs) openly wished for the “AI bubble” to burst to rid the field of hopeless LLM hype. submitted by /u/WhizKidRichie

Originally posted by u/WhizKidRichie on r/ArtificialInteligence