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Re:Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1 by gattr on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:20PM (#47300995)
I don't think it's a best example. MMAcevedo is about running a real human mind on a different substrate (for science, for labor, or to torture it for fun a million times, I guess, by a bored teenager who got the image from torrents).

Scaling up these neuron cultures is rather something like "head cheese" from Greg Egan's "Rifters" novels (artificial "brains" trained to do network filtering, anti-malware combat etc.).

Re:Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1 by Tzt on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:27PM (#47301056)
>Greg Egan's "Rifters"

By Peter Watts actually.

Re:Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1 by gattr on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:41PM (#47301203)
Yes, sorry! I like them both a lot.
Re:Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1 by kpil on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:00PM (#47316205)
Will put it in my list :-)