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A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.
www.404media.co/a-digital-fly-brain-has-taken-over-the-internet/
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
I find this deeply unethical.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
You shouldn’t. It’s just a neural net shaped like a fly brain. There’s no biochemistry simulation past that.
Replying to @kogasa@programming.dev
Eventually we can reduce the human brain down to this. Is it ethical to use that blueprint for experiments? We’ve got to be better than this, I hope. And it has to start before we get there.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
No, we can’t. The biochemistry needs to be there. The fly brain is a discretized abstract model of the fly brain with none of the weights it would need to be an actual (discretized abstract) model.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
whatever simulation its in, it would be the only “reality” it knows. With no knowledge of anything else its in best reality it “knows” of, provided its even possible to have anything else going on beyond actions made by computer that are based on some nebulous ruleset that the fruitfly brain runs on.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
None of the neurons have weights attached, meaning the signals aren’t processed in any way that would support consciousness.
Regardless, now imagine having Bad Apple rendered on your neurons by an Eldritch God.