Fly-brain connectome demos go viral: playing Doom, trading Bitcoin, driving robots
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-12
Scobleizer compiles a viral "fly brain report": around Sep 3, 2026, Google Research and HHMI Janelia released MaleCNS v1.0 — the first complete connectome of an adult male fruit fly brain (166,700 neurons, 25.6M synapses; FlyWire had earlier mapped 140k). Within days, builders started wiring the simulated connectome into everything.
The quoted post summarizes: a fruit fly brain spent the week playing Doom, trading Bitcoin, and driving a hexapod robot — "none of it is fake."
Notable viral demos listed:
- @lyraaaa: fly brain plays Beat Saber — 84,912 likes, 2,316 quotes, 22M views
- @alrightmark: fly brain drives a virtual Mini Cooper and uses the blinkers
The list was curated by Scobleizer's AI agent built with @blevlabs, filtering posts with at least 10 likes or reshares.
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