Raises uncomfortable questions about consciousness. The only difference between these neurons and your own are the number of them and the structures they form. Of course it doesn't know what it's doing, but... Neither do our own neurons
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So we’re just going full head of steam into a combo of the torment nexus and AM
It would not know what hell is, just that humanoids are enemies.
And tomatos
... Am I missing something, or is this not like, the practical, if not lore accurate first step toward actually creating a:
Next step, give it spider legs and a gattling gun!
Funny just finished listening to John Romero audiobook DoomGuy wonder what he think of this?
Heckin gamer.
Is this how the Borg began? Suddenly makes more sense with the outfits.
So they are growing doom guy.
Baby steps towards growing a Wolfenstein guy, we'll get there. Maybe around the time they put Trump in a life support mech.
It'll be good telly, I bet.
Maybe this will lead to San junipero for real
Taking "will it run doom" one step too far.
Can they run console commands?
A closer example would be if it could use the console in linux since it's only playing dom not running it, I wonder if wetware would be any better as a coding assistant than ai
playing dom
I do not think we should train a bioengineered intelligence with guns to do that.
Don't kink shame
Hey human doms I'm 100% okay with, it's these things I'm worried about
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/doom/images/2/27/Meet_spider.png/revision/latest
Is anyone else really skeeved out by the term "wetware", or is that just me
Shadowrun used the term "bioware" instead, do you like that better?
Nah I prefer wetware. This should heebie your jeebies
We need to take it back a step and see if it'll run Linux.
I can imagine a new AI hellscape where LLMs are run on human brain cells in a test tube. So you're never quite sure if you're talking to a mere algorithm ... or an enslaved proto-human who might be conscious and whose entire existence revolves around answering your inane online queries.
Asking someone to compile the kernel with their mind sure is one way to give someone a headache
I wanna see Linus' reaction to that pull request.
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Having worked with human neurons harvested from dead people, there are worse ways to extend your life. At least these ones get to play games instead of getting poked and zapped by me.
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It’s having more fun than I am.
Maybe the real hell is the life we've lived along the way.
This is the bad place!
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I'm not sure if it's the same scientists, but the YouTube channel The Thought Emporium has an ongoing series about growing neurons to play retro games (such as OG DOOM).
The playlist of this series is fittingly called Building the Torment Nexus.
It looks like their setup, but I don't see any recent videos. Jan 15th was their last one. I think they have a patreon with bonus clips and advance stuff.
Might be from that.
perhaps they did the experiment and are now working on a video about it
We are old gods who punish life for fun.
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