Anons Discuss Low IQ Insects

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• stingpie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My cousin works on similar stuff, and she says that knowing the connectome (which neurons connect to others) is practically useless for understanding how the brain actually functions. You don’t know how strongly the neuron activations are correlated, and you can’t tell a regular neuron from an inhibitory one. In other words, you can train it to do anything you want, and it will have nothing to do with how the brain actually thinks. She told me about this study where some scientists trained the fly’s connectome to act like a fly, and then another paper trained it to play a game (it might’ve been this one).

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• Boozilla@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am very bad at these kinds of games, so I want to believe this.

  Meanwhile, I’m going to go hover around this light bulb until someone turns it off or I die from dehydration.

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  • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Flies and other insects circling bulbs is actually a pretty terrible result of their extensive history of evolution without artificial light. They feel like they’re flying straight as far as vision is concerned, while the rest of their body is describing circles.

    It’s probably quite close to how an utterly wasted person stumbling around trying to stand up straight feels, getting a bunch of conflicting info from their senses. It’s probably a pretty shitty experience that does often result in death (especially if they’re circling a bug zapper), and most humans just laugh at it.

    Empathetic species my ass.

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    • Boozilla@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup, nature is absolutely brutal, and humans in particular are highly callous and destructive at large scales. Things like empathy only exist at smaller scales.

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• FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone i knew who was really academically excellent without any effort, he loves/loved rhythm games. I think people are drawn to games which fill a void of what they can get out of their own life, so someone who doesn’t play a musical instrument or sports for instance can get that from rhythm games.

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve also know rather intelligent people who love rhythm games. Something tells me anon is doing a little projection here.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    John Carmack also loves beat saber IIRC and I hear he’s pretty smart

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    • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yea but can he play an instrument?

      … also I still want to try beat saber… it seems like fun cardio.

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    • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When I see beat saber gameplay it looks like something I’d love and wouod be really engaging to play while also not over-the-top

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• Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AaWMGIG-c)

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s playing Doom as well:

  https://fly-brain-doom.awormuth.chatgpt.site/

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  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not very well it isnt haha

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