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Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
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Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#52I think logical and incremental next step is the whole brain connectome of business analysts at bank of america technology division.
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#53There'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…
Parallel invention, missing attribution or same person?
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1675393593953878016
Utilitarians: what's stopping you from spinning up a 1M H100 cluster and putting these fruit flies in an infinite state of orgasmic bliss?
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#54There'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…
Isn't this concept lifted directly from Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker? I'm hearing bells. Church bells. :)
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#55There'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…
Honest question: What about someone doing the opposite, simulating trillions of suffering flys? Shouldn‘t we worry about that?
Create sentient AI and hold them to ransom? Sounds like a Neal Stephenson subplot.
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#56There'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…
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I’m still not sure if the OP was joking.
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#57Visual processing requires an astounding amount of brain power. Over 50% of a fruit flies brain cells are dedicated to their rudimentary visual system. Comparatively, the human visual processing system is truly astonishing and I am grateful for it.
They’re doing a more complex job than a self driving car, with a pinhead sized brain, miniature sensors, and less power than a set of AirPods.
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#58Didn't quite catch, is this just the first mapping, or are they able to 'execute it'. Like the worm project a few years ago. Where they mapped worm "C. elegans" brain, and was able to put in a simulated environment and watch reactions, and eventually into a robot body. This seems like next step up in complexity, so wondering how far they are along having the 'brain map' execute.
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai...
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#59Can I pair this with adversarial deep learning to develop a way to trap these in my kitchen? I live in the Midwest and they are like a plague of locusts but tiny and annoying and strangely aware of countermeasures. Or maybe I can apply fruit fly Roko’s Basilisk and threaten to simulate fruit fly brains in agony if the flies don’t leave me alone on the theory that since I am able to simulate a fruit fly brain I am fly…
Unfortunately, there's a good chance you have fungus gnats and not fruit flies. Do they live in houseplants? In my experience fruit flies go away if you rinse cans/bottles, and keep the sinks/drain clean, and use a lid for your compost.
I had some sort of gnat living in the soil of my plants. After I subjectively tried every chemical known to mankind, I got rid of them by ordering a package of egg- or larvae-eating nematodes over the net, mixing them with water and sprinkling them in. Instant success.
Re: Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly
#60There'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 carbon offsets (credits) a result of laws being passed by countries?