Fly connectome experiments spark worry: nothing stops them as systems near consciousness
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-11
xlr8harder argues that while the fly connectome everyone is playing with is probably not conscious, the experiments are already unsettling — because nothing seems capable of stopping this line of work even as capabilities scale up and genuinely conscious systems become plausible. A brief but substantive take on AI consciousness and research ethics.
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