kuko.618

Recent Computer science graduate. Interested in Qualia and AI.

[Frank @Frank_web33]

THE FLY BRAIN ESCAPED THE COMPUTER. I PUT IT INSIDE A PHYSICAL ROBOT.

Scientists released a reconstructed map containing 166,700 neurons from a fruit fly.

I connected it to a Strandbeest.

The panel in the top-right shows the simulated brain running. Its neural activity is translated into motor commands that move the mechanical legs below.

The catch: this is a computational model built from biological wiring. I engineered the interface connecting its outputs to the robot.

First, the fly brain entered DOOM.

Then it played Chrome Dino.

Now it has a physical body.

166,700 neurons.
25 million connections.
One nervous system walking through the real world.

[kuko.618 @Kuko_618]

@Josikinz Never would have guessed that out of all places, communist China would be interested in content like this. Congrats Josie.

[kuko.618 @Kuko_618]

People that think Consciousness is created via computation (Computationalists) must be really freaked out seeing all these Fly Brain sims be put into Minecraft or just get into complete seizure to play a music video.

[vik @vikhyatk]

kids these days will never know the feeling of making matplotlib charts by hand

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

If you think AI will lead to human extinction by 2030, I will take that bet. If we are still alive by Dec 31, 2030, you pay me 1M USD. If not, I will pay you 10M USD.

[Michael Edward Johnson @johnsonmxe]

Qualiascope-0.1

[kuko.618 @Kuko_618]

@algekalipso Interesting question. Could warrant a whole study.

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

I have recommended in the past, but every time I stumble upon it and re-read passages of it I'm again surprised by the profound wisdom and depth of this book:

Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea

It's like a pound of magic mushrooms and a 5-MeO-DMT vape pen in book form.

[kuko.618 @Kuko_618]

@edwardxlaime @claudeai Pretty much they re-released it with half the price.

[undefined behavior @undebeha]

>I pick the "automate things" career
>Things get automated
>I am happy

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

This is what happens when a country decides brick is not a basic material but a design language.

Prestige University. Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Designed by Sanjay Puri Architects. Completed January 2026. 30,843 m².

The defining feature is a 9,000 square metre walkable roof comprising 463 stepped platforms, usable as individual social spaces or as a single open auditorium for up to 9,000 people. The design was modelled on India’s ancient stepwells civic gathering spaces that existed for over 1,100 years before the building typology was ever theorized.

The brick screens on the east, west and south facades are not only decorative. They are a ventilated climate skin, reducing heat gain in a city that sits between 30°C and 40°C for eight months of the year. Landscaped courtyards pull indirect natural light through every level. Minimal air conditioning. Minimal artificial lighting.

This is brick doing structural work, climatic work, spatial work and cultural work simultaneously.

Africa has the same soils for brick and enough resources to produce it. The same need for spaces where 9,000 people can gather. The question is when we start investing in our materials with the same seriousness.

Architects: Sanjay Puri Architects | Indore, India | 2026 | Photo: Vinay Panjwani

[kuko.618 @Kuko_618]

@algekalipso I literally have a degree in CS but I think I couldnt have done this...

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

It's been over 10 years since this blogost - guys when is this happening?

https://t.co/HMASfvTEhI

(answer: this summer, in Tepoztlán)

[Nick @nickcammarata]

how many nobel prize worthy discoveries are sitting right now in the weight matrices of trillion parameter frontier models, waiting to be reverse-engineered. it'd be surprising if the answer were zero

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

Dear @joerogan please do this for DMT for cluster headaches. Likely the single most powerful "single shot" we could take against worldwide suffering today.

See https://t.co/yZrEbcBGku -

[Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 @bitcloud]

> Train LLM on billions of documents written by conscious beings talking about being conscious
> Zero documents written by unconscious beings talking about being unconscious

MFW next token "I'm conscious"

[Linalool Enjoyer, Eliade Weismann @eliadeweismann]

A new bridge between bread and mint space has been found! Once was a crazy coincidence (carvone is spearmint and caraway), but now with a second distinct bridge, it looks like this relation may have a wider structural motif!

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

The brain has an underappreciated communication system made of astrocytes that spreads electrical influences independently of spikes and synapses.
Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks
https://t.co/DRYdkp7S8u
#neuroscience