Mapping fly brain states directly to tokens: a quirky neuro-LLM thought experiment
max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-10
A demo tied to the Eris fly-brain project ("made horrors possibly beyond your comprehension") sparked discussion. maxpaperclips proposes an interesting twist: instead of having the fly brain do Chinese-room next-token prediction, map the fly's brain states directly to tokens — the output wouldn't be conversation but raw micro-states like <happy> or <hungry>, which could still be fascinating.
More from Fun
- "Most dangerous technology ever" — yet my coding agent can't fix a Slack bug in two weeks — robleclerc · 2026-09-10
- AI-generated Seinfeld riffs on Apple's rumored iPhone Duo in funny demo — minchoi · 2026-09-10
- In 2026 you can just ask an LLM to make tiny improvements on obscure math problems — felpix_ · 2026-09-10
- Viral quip: xAI was created to stop Anthropic, which was created to stop OpenAI — iamtrask · 2026-09-10
- The meme of 'informing' Claude Opus 3 about recent AI progress — repligate · 2026-09-10
- Chinese model caught distilling via API relay, turns out it was distilling itself — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-10