[batch12]

> using live animals as the computational substrate. Use the visual cortex of one as the input, send the neural spikes to a second animals frontal lobe for computation and finally send those signals to a third animals motor cortex to physically press buttons.

That sounds terrifying.

[altmanaltman]

It does but most of what we do to animals is terrifying. I could see why getting funding for this idea might not have been that easy though "I want to mind control three animals to play Doom" is certainly a pitch

[4gotunameagain]

That is the fallacy of relative privation. The fact that most of what we do to animals is terrifying should be the motivating factor to NOT do more of it, such as the atrocity described above.

[Schmerika]

Seems like the relative privation fallacy is more and more a key component of an accelerating race to the bottom, across wide swathes of society.

Sure would be cool if more people could recognise it.