Worm’s brain mapped and replicated digitally to control obstacle-avoiding robot.
This article is 9 years old. Here’s the OpenWorm Wikipedia page.
Edit: still haven’t mapped the brain but here’s the official site and [the github] (https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm)
Extremely old news, but still very cool.
We used to have one of these roaming around my college compaci lab, hooked up to a big red bluetooth button that would recompile the neurological structure when pressed. When we were feeling particularly nasty (or they were waxing particularly poetic), we used to challenge the humanities majors to push the button and ‘kill’ the worm.
I’m not particularly proud of the fact I made quite a few people break down completely with the implications of asking them to do that - or more sadistically, by repeatedly pressing the button and asking them why it mattered. I got punched in the face by a vegan for that one, which was fair enough tbh. Anyways, the reality of the project really isnt something most people are prepared to address.
I think it’s good that you made some people come to solid conclusions regarding their views on the matter, but I’m sure it didn’t win you many friends.
Trauma as a problem solving tool… hmm…
Never said it was the best* method lol
But you did seem to imply that it was a good method.
I hoped the not winning friends part would have prevented that
I don’t know why the person you’re replying to causes me so much revulsion. Probably resonates with some people I’m not in touch. Anyways, live moves on and I decided to block that person.
Life’s too short to tolerate asswholes
Yeah tbh I was trying to find the bright side of the story but I don’t think it came off that way.
I had a former summer camp kid come up and credit me with having given them their “first existential crisis” (for explaining that when you die, “you just cease”) which I am proud of.
Damn dude, why you gotta do 'em like that? Hope someday he finds psychelics or something lol
They were actually pretty grateful, feeling it had set them up for a lot of positive realizations down the line. We play D&D now and they’re working on their masters, so I guess they weren’t too badly scarred…
How old were they at the time and how did the subject come up?
Not very satisfying answers I’m afraid, they were probably 8-10 and I have no idea how we got onto the topic since this was 15+ years ago.
But why are you proud? Or was that more tongue-in-cheek?
Hmm seems odd to me. I personally would not have even thought anyone would have second guessed pressing the button.
Not even the vegan?
Nope there is no actual worm in the box, only magic smoke.
There are no actual worms in the universe, only bunch of atoms.
But how the information was presented matters, especially when people are unfamiliar with the topic.
Beware the T0.001
Oh neat, we can give Legos depression.
Can worms be depressed?
To subterranean levels.
Yes.
Neat. We’ve seen a man with a brain half eaten by a worm, and now we get to see brains made of worms.
Can we get a robot with a RFK brain? Don’t know the use, though.
RFK sweating bullets
He should feel like a proud papa. Hell, they should call it RFK jr.
Can we please never refer to RFK Jr as RFK? Honestly I’d be fine if we never mentioned him at all, but letting him take over the name of the real RFK is a fucking travesty and I will not stand for it.
The video has a typo. It uses “it’s” instead of “its”.
Damn, literally unwatchable. Let’s hope they re-upload with a fixed version so we can understand it.
Unacceptable. Such disgusting amateur mistakes make the video unwatchable. I need holy water.
Lol, that was funny! I know I’m being pedantic. I usually make those observations just to scratch an itch. The itch was a bit stronger than usual with this one because it’s a journalistic video. That’s all.
“journalistic”
Fixed that for you
Why is this post not marked NSFW(not safe for worms)?
Because it’s artificial, not the real stuff! Duh
I bet this one could run for President.
That’s all very well and good and all, until it meets another worm and wants to talk. Perhaps one of the opposite gender…
Wow, that title was a rollercoaster!
Is this like an RFK joke or some shit?
who the hell is RFK?
I appreciate you not knowing. He’s a Kennedy that was (?) running to be president. He had a brain worm.
he had a brain worm? like literally? not just like a hyperbolic way of calling him weird?
yeah
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/politics/rfk-jr-parastic-worm-brain/index.html
The weirdest part? Looking for an article, I did a Google search for “rfk jr brain worm”, and for some reason, at the bottom of the page, there was a little blurb telling me that there was a link removed under the DMCA, the original content being hosted at Onlyfans.
Giggity?
