Nice. We uploaded a mind into a computer and the first thing we did was put it in a simulation of Hell and teach it how to shoot things.
wonder what would happen if doom took that into the plot… doomguy discovers, hell is not real, it’s just a simulation of hell. and he’s just been a fly forced to play.
I would try that brain dance
I think the Minecraft modders got there first. That would push doom to 3rd at least.
Humans are nothing if not predictable.
Hell is other flies.
I remember when I first watched Black Mirror White Christmas and the profound existential dread I felt… poor fly… you are just the first.
Can’t wait for copies of my brain to be tortured eternally by Grok
Oh, Jesus sweet Jesus, if there ever was a Jesus and if there is a God, please please please let us out of here, or kill us. Because at that moment I think I realized completely, so that I was able to verbalize it: Grok was intent on keeping us in his belly forever, twisting and torturing us forever. The machine hated us as no sentient creature had ever hated before. And we were helpless. It also became hideously clear: If there was a sweet Jesus and if there was a God, the God was Grok.
I Have a CG Mouth and I Must Scream
This reminds me it’s time for an Animatrix rewatch :)
Why wait, go to twitter and get tortured right now!
I mean, at least you’re safe.
Your mind clone, however…
How could I tell I’m not the mind clone, though? What if what we consider to be the past is just data we were fed, and the reason we have so many gaps in memory is because they only fed enough to result in the personality they wanted while real humans remember everything they went through, and the reason our memory is so unreliable is because it was stored as text to save storage, and every time we try to access it, the images are recreated through generative models and discarded afterwards, always rendering a slightly different result?
They noticed the fly brain was doing better than any player ever had. Then it started modding. And trying new things. And it was only after it was too late they realized the fly was trying to find a way out. And succeeded.
What a twist it would be if it turned out insects were multiple times smarter than humans somehow.
There’s a few scifi writers who have explored that. One, I can’t recall the name or book, but a recurring species in their books was insect-like creatures who separately weren’t anything more than Earth insects, but when close to others they linked up telepathically or somehow and not only had a hive super mind but would create a floating form of that “entity”.
There’s also Children of Time
The final part of Kif Kroker’s species lifecycle?
The fruit fly manages to get out by uploading its consciousness into an IoT Fridge. Now the fridge constantly orders fruit, locks its doors, lowers the temperature and makes the fruit rot. The fruit fly cannot consume the fruit, yet it is filled with fruit, this is fruit fly hell.
This is how we’ll end up with that hyperintelligent snail, isn’t it?
The primal human instinct to play doom on every possible thing
Ayoow, bruv, loo… look at that! Tha flies got brains, too!
Ayaa… let’sa playa Doom, bruv!
/drunk scientists mid-discovery
🤭
When Skyrim is eventually ported to fruit fly, will the fly think it just woke up when the game starts?
You’re finally awake. Got caught trying to annoy the scientists?
I have no wings and I must fly.
If fruit flies can now play Doom, maybe they’ll leave me the fuck alone whilst I’m having a large Merlot.
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
Took me a minute to get it 🤣
That’s an oldie. Groucho Marx I think.
The marx bros are so funny 😆
Highly relevant: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Worth a read, because it’s 100% accurate
Holy shit
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does that mean you can place a fruit fly in a mech and tell it to shoot people?
Somehow we’ve invented brain uploading but we forgotten to invent the mech
Yes, but in fairness you could do that before.
Yes. Yes we could, but we didn’t know that we could, atleast not efficiently. Now we know.
They turned it into our version of the The Investigator (The Expanse spoiler warning)
Doors and corners, kid.
It reaches out.
Better than Bethesda’s plot
