Bad Apple Played on a Fly's Brain Sparks Debate Over Biological Computing Ethics
birchlse · x · 2026-09-07
linguinelabs demonstrated the classic "Bad Apple" video running on a fly's brain. The repost raises an ethical question: at what point is it immoral to do this to a living creature — or is it always fine because it's "just a computer"? Bad Apple has long been the ultimate geek benchmark for exotic hardware; this biological substrate version is now fueling ethics debate.
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