We spent decades mapping 166,000 neurons and the internet immediately made the fly play Doom, trade Bitcoin and parallel park. Honestly, that’s the most human possible response to a neuroscience breakthrough. Give us the map of a brain and within 48 hours someone will ask whether it can run Doom. Next milestone: the fly gets a LinkedIn account.
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Expected salary: a droplet of sugary water per day.
That's 15-30 drops of sugar water. Aint nobody able to afford that!
In this economy!?
Roko's Basilisk is actually just people on the internet making a simulation of your brain play Doom.
Any fly brain that digital can't fly... all they know is play Doom, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab and lie.