Can a fruit fly connectome run on a sex toy? Neuroscientist weighs in
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-11
A joke thread at @buttplugio turned into real speculation: running Doom on a buttplug is easy, but a fruit fly connectome would need serious hacking.
Neuroscientist Anders Sandberg joined in, suggesting we'd need benchmarks on memory and CPU in sex toys, and proposing bit-based integrate-and-fire approximations to squeeze the connectome onto tiny hardware — plus an ethics quip about flies finding the job exciting (except fruit flies).
Related event: Physicist Seriously Analyzes Running a Fly Connectome on Adult Toys(3 posts)→
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