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At some point a software engineer actually sat down and implemented a worm "torturing" algorithm. I'm not a worm rights activist or anything, and the paper was

At some point a software engineer actually sat down and implemented a worm "torturing" algorithm. I'm not a worm rights activist or anything, and the paper was a fascinating read, but man I'd hate to be a flatworm in these guys' lab. Makes me wonder if some dark agency somewhere in the world is using AI to perfect their autonomous human-torturing machine.

sombremesa 9y ago
Humanity is very good at torturing itself already.
Razengan 9y ago
Maybe someone or something [0] already invented the perfect human-torturing machine and that’s what life is. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
- andai 9y ago
  Check out Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. https://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml https://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml
Someone 9y ago
”At some point a software engineer” More likely a Ph.D. student in biology. And, reading the paper, I get the impression the decapitation was still done manually. That must be a dangerous job, given that these animals have “a high tendency to undergo spontaneously fission” :-) But yes, the paper doesn’t mention an ethics committee, so it appears the hunting season for flatworms is completely unrestricted.