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World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons
(interestingengineering.com)
This was signed off by an ethics review board...
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026
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they will soon to use real human brains eventually.
As grim as it sounds, this is probably just a grift. It sounds like they're using stem cells as wires, and they'll die eventually. There's some ai word salad in the article too.
Oh so they are aiming for that evangelion shit . Cool cool cool Cool cool cool Cool cool cool
the star trek repair station, it abduct aliens and uses brains of humans to power its AI.
Yay, torment nexus, and if it isn't yet, it will be soon.
Behold, the incredibly efficient human. It eats garbage, live about 80 years, adapts to any fucking environment….
Yea but it’s just not expensive enough.
You forgot: can be mass produced using unskilled labour
Unskilled!? how dare you
Edit: checked with previous encounters and ... Yeah you are correct.
This is the worst fucking idea I've ever heard. Please don't create the Mother Brain and hook it up to the internet.
Also: Does it count as AGI if it's just a gigantic human brain?
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Ah these guys. Weren't they the ones using electo shock therapy on their "organoids" to "teach" (force) them to play Doom?
https://hwbusters.com/news/human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/
And didn't said organoids mysteriously "fire" the moment someone walked into the lab?
Nah, it'll be fine.
Hey, here's a cool idea. Why not take "samples" from "neurodivergent" children (let's say... 1500cm^3... throw in some spinal cord), finely sliced, and bathe them in Adderal, Dr Fucking Mengele. Just think how "on task" the compute will be!
In fairness, the ScienceAlert piece notes that if any start to show signs of consciousness, they will "consider" shutting the project down.
Which is reassuring in the way that a fire extinguisher on a rocket is reassuring.
PS: sorry if I was unclear. STOP FUCKING CREATING BRAINS IN A VAT, YOU FUCKING MONSTERS.
They were also engineered to be deficient in a protein that's essential for the normal function of neurons.
Given the careful engineering of the organoids to inhibit normal function, the researchers are not worried at this stage. However, if any start to show signs of consciousness, they will consider shutting the project down.
Making them stupid so they don't appear "human"
"if they show signs of consciousness we'll shut it down" is so absolutely batshit especially when you consider people like me learned while in school that fish don't feel any pain.
We were extremely confidently incorrect about that one.....
This is fucking abhorrent.
Heh the angel of death got to live out a full life. I mentioned this in another post; don't be surprised if your brain gets cross sectioned and scanned before being cremated.
You sure we haven't been already?
Ah. This is a simulation.
We must have done something heinous in “the real.”
Or you opposed roko's Basilisk.
Yeah, that checks out.
I'm sure it's been going on for a while at this point
Every day we inch closer to a line the universe will retaliate against us for crossing.
I was there. They let me take a picture of the tech.
Dear humanity,
Consider maybe not.
Thanks,
-A Human
Lovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.
I think that's true in a very literal sense
first hello world will be ‘kill me’ for this poor thing
Uh oh
This will in no way come back to "haunt" us...
woopsie
They should use the neurons of the tech oligarchs if they’re so smart.
They'll have to add ketamine to the bionutrient slurry.
That’s my breakfast smoothie.
a meal for a champ!
The only argument I have to support this is that they only live 30 days and arent developed enough for consciousness. But thats pretty weak considering they will obviously get better and cross the line thats acceptable. So yeah lets not go down this line of research.
New grift just dropped
This research will be funding Chairs at university Ethics departments for decades to come.
Don't be fooled. They are illithids in disguise.
I'm sure "mn" means "mamoneters."
(the correct abbreviation is MM, a la Roman numeral M for 1000. Mil Mil, or, 1000x1000.)
I think they were trying to abbreviate million
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