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Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

Aren't utility credits called money?

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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post #11

There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

Aren't utility credits called money?

No. If I have 100 dollars, I might have gotten those from betting on old person fight ring in a care home - a net utility negative, or I might have gotten it from teaching disadvantaged teenagers PHP - a net utility positive.

If you have 100 UC, the only way those credits could have been minted is through 100 hours of 1 million simulated fruit flies having the time of their life.

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

> We are selling 'utility credits' I'm sorry but this is where you lost me. We should be democratising utility credits, not selling them.

Yes, if we can find a way to mine bliss utility simulation credits on our smartphones, we could offset personal moral failures.

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

> We are selling 'utility credits' I'm sorry but this is where you lost me. We should be democratising utility credits, not selling them.

This could massively save on the social security budget.

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

That is very interesting. Where can I read more about your company?

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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Awesome! Are there any simple downloads that have just annotations and connectivity? Like a sparse adjacency matrix with annotations of the node and edge features (neuron type, etc). I didn't see any immediately. A condensed representation of the 3d model should be pretty great for researchers as well.

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

That is very interesting. Where can I read more about your company?

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/another-bay-area-house...

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

This would be comedy gold if only it wasn’t so believable.

Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

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There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions…

My subjective probability that this is sarcasm is .87 or so

beautiful satire!
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