Don’t build the Torment Nexus
Title of my favorite book about building a torment nexus!
But can it run DOOM?
“What is my purpose?” “You run Doom.” “Oh my god…”
Ngl, pretty sick
As a teenager, playing doom was pretty much my dream job.
Apparently yes… And super Mario 64 and beat saber.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/simulated-fruit-fly-brain-plays-doom/
Are they taking applications to be the neurons
No, they hope to pioneer and corner the market for Neurons as-a-Service.
I wish them the best of luck. Self-hosting your own neurons is getting to be incredibly taxing.
Didn’t know we would get the Matrix this fast
We’ve literally matrixed a fly already, and it’s wild to me that thats not the biggest news story / ethical discussion of the day.
Like, we took a fly, sliced it’s brain into million of slices, scanned each slice and rebuilt its exact neuron configuration in software, then, ran that software inside a video game engine wiring up the nervous system to the video game character’s inputs and outputs, and the fly started crawling around in the video game and drinking sugar water…
Thats fucking crazy, in virtually all senses of the word.
Now this is crazy. I was not aware we did this. I guess the next step would be to do a more advanced animal and go from there.
or the space station in enterprise, that abducted aliens and use thier brains the same way.
The Borg cubes?
No, there was a different thing. It was a repair station, and it kidnapped people as the price for the repair, by making it look like they died in an accident. Then their brains ran the thing.
