Billionaires desperately want to create slavery again, don't they
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A little bit scary.
Oh hey! Actual man-made horrors beyond comprehension!
(Sorry, the fly brain simulation stuff felt so tame compared to this field)
Isn't this literally the plot of The Matrix?
Don't build the Torment Nexus
We getting 40k Cogitators before GTA 6
I mean... could we please not turn to dystopias for ideas?
We could also refrain from turning to fantasy and sci-fi to look for serious answers on how to develop technology or structure society. They are stories designed to tell a tale that sells copies, not necessarily as accurate or rigorous predictions of things to come.
A dystopia doesn't have to be science fiction. There are plenty of warnings and social commentary in stories that don't have to actually come true as told in the text to be relevant enough to pay attention and apply it to reality. Are you suggesting that none of any past scifi has ever had anything important to the real world in either technology, application of it, or social dangers?
You kind of misunderstood why dystopias developed in the first place.
Are you saying that life imitates art? What about our collective human nature under capitalism? Wouldn't that in itself bring out the worst in us? Here we are though. I guess how we got here is up for debate. I'm sure it's all melding shades of grey.
It's all beige. The whole universe.
But yes, it's a collection of things, and art pulls from different parts of it, or on this topic, from different aspects of the directions we're heading. Our future (present?) isn't Brave New World or 1984 or Solyent Green, it's a mix of all of those messages. Because we didn't listen, or didn't take it seriously enough. Maybe because it's "just" scifi and that never happens. Until it does.
But can it run DOOM?
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
Pantheon.
Is that the AI fusion of Raytheon and Palantir?
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.
or the space station in enterprise, that abducted aliens and use thier brains the same way.
The Borg cubes?
This feels like the start of a sci-fi novel where everything goes deeply deeply wrong
Is it possible for any one neuron to feel or think by itself?
That's a philosophical question they have no real answer to and why they probably shouldn't fucking do this
Thoughts are composed of a large number of neurons, similar to a computer composted of many circuits. There actually is a real answer to the question.
Should add I’m not trying to be confrontational as you clearly are passionate about this. Just trying to keep it fact based.
A single perceptron is proven to be able to solve a simple mathematical problem, so I don't think you can hand wave this away by assuming a thought has to have more neurons to be complex enough to be considered a "thought". That isn't a scientific fact or answer to the problem.
“no.” is a complete sentence.
nooooooooooooo! is a complete thought.
is this a box in a lab screaming ‘nooooooooooo!’?
i have fear for the future we’re sending our youth into.
The people making these ought to install them in their own head to confirm whether these neurons remember any kind of suffering that may have occured.
Ah fuck.
I think I’d rather be used as a human battery than slop storage 🤢
Unfortunately our bodies make for pretty terrible batteries, but we're pretty damn good at processing information in certain ways.
Yeah, immagine a future where robots hunt human so that they can extract their brains and connect them to biological datacentres. Get 8 billion brains wired together and you have the most powerful datacentre in the world. ;-)
This reads more dystopian than any news before, ever, in my eyes.
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