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Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

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#41
I'm a rat. I've been trained to sit at a desk in front of a monitor and type. They feed me coffee to set my neural weights on positive feedback.

Really, does no one see the connection to AI, and how humans are nothing but feedback loops. It's all just scale.

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#42

Are gamers going to have expensive RNPUs (rat neuron processing units) plugged in via Thunderbolt in addition to GPUs in the future?

Imagine instead of a coop multiplayer using rat brains as your teammates. That might actually work commercially.

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

#43
post #2

why rat neurons and not people neurons?

It's explained in the video. Rat neurons are more than enough for this application and are much cheaper to come by.

But, funny that the reason was they were 'cheaper', not that you can't buy human neurons if you wanted to.

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#44

I'm a rat. I've been trained to sit at a desk in front of a monitor and type. They feed me coffee to set my neural weights on positive feedback. Really, does no one see the connection to AI, and how humans are nothing but feedback loops. It's all just scale.

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#45
post #19

Other videos on his channel is also quite interesting

Thought Emporium, Nile Red, and Styropyro are YouTubers who are a few degrees away from being dangerous criminals (I say this in the lightest way possible) but channel their talents for educational videos.

How so

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

#46
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a funny one. At first: how horrifying to subject brain cells to the world of Doom! After more info: oh, they don’t perceive the horrific setting nor possess the context to know they are in a simulation. They just have inputs and outputs, comfort and discomfort. That’s not so bad. Upon deep reflection: oh God! We are just a scaled up version of this! Our perception of the world is just a tiny slice of reality fil…

" On that day, throwuwu discovered philosophy. He immersed himself in Descartes, Kant and Schopenhauer - in a world of doubts and cheating demons, phenomena and noumena, representations and suggestions of transcendence. Things would never be the same for him. "

Nah, I’m cool with being a brain in a box. There are more important things to think about.

Re: Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]

#48
post #7

Well, that's horrifying

It’s a funny one. At first: how horrifying to subject brain cells to the world of Doom! After more info: oh, they don’t perceive the horrific setting nor possess the context to know they are in a simulation. They just have inputs and outputs, comfort and discomfort. That’s not so bad. Upon deep reflection: oh God! We are just a scaled up version of this! Our perception of the world is just a tiny slice of reality fil…

The crasiest part is that they train the neurons by just pulsing them in a "pleasing" way.

...what? Are they experiencing pleasure? It sounds a lot like they're experiencing pleasure.

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