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>We reached the point of rat habituation but didn’t start training. Our rats (Todd, Kojima, Gabe) aged out before full testing. The setup works, but behavioral

by shmeeed 10mo ago

>We reached the point of rat habituation but didn’t start training. Our rats (Todd, Kojima, Gabe) aged out before full testing. The setup works, but behavioral validation is pending. Ah man, what a pity. That VR rig is awesome, but it doesn't really seem to me they are planning to continue these experiments, or do they?

mikestorrent 10mo ago
How could you go to this amount of work and not continue??? Probably just waiting for other people to get mad at the lack of progress so that they attempt this themselves, and then he can challenge them to a deathmatch with his highly trainer ringer rats
- chickenhun 10mo ago
  When rats gaming championships become a thing, I will have the top team for sure! Seriously though, this project took way too much time. We built 2 versions of the setup, lots of hardware, software building, testing. I hope a behavioral lab or hardware enthusiasts would take it over and scale it. I did learn a lot in the process and would gladly support anyone who would continue it. In fact, I have a setup now laying around in my living room up for the taking :D
  - mikestorrent 10mo ago
    Seriously impressive work, and I do hope someone runs with the torch, it's always fascinating to see what our little rodent buddies are capable of. Even if you're sort of like an alien abducting them for experiments.... if you offered me a sugar drip to play doom in VR, I'd be there
- xorbax 10mo ago
  They also seemed to basically do it for two weeks and then stop because the rats "aged out" - despite it supposedly working well and achieving concrete results. I know rats aren't long-lived, but I would be interested to know how they determined the rats 'aged out'. Could also be a complete failure they spent considerable effort in with zero results, and are hand waving and constructing a way to quit while claiming success. I could see the rats not really connecting things and just puttering around. It's a pretty involved setup and I poor uptake on the part of the rats would be a steep disappointment.

by shmeeed 10mo ago

mikestorrent 10mo ago

How could you go to this amount of work and not continue??? Probably just waiting for other people to get mad at the lack of progress so that they attempt this themselves, and then he can challenge them to a deathmatch with his highly trainer ringer rats

chickenhun 10mo ago
When rats gaming championships become a thing, I will have the top team for sure! Seriously though, this project took way too much time. We built 2 versions of the setup, lots of hardware, software building, testing. I hope a behavioral lab or hardware enthusiasts would take it over and scale it. I did learn a lot in the process and would gladly support anyone who would continue it. In fact, I have a setup now laying around in my living room up for the taking :D
- mikestorrent 10mo ago
  Seriously impressive work, and I do hope someone runs with the torch, it's always fascinating to see what our little rodent buddies are capable of. Even if you're sort of like an alien abducting them for experiments.... if you offered me a sugar drip to play doom in VR, I'd be there
xorbax 10mo ago
They also seemed to basically do it for two weeks and then stop because the rats "aged out" - despite it supposedly working well and achieving concrete results. I know rats aren't long-lived, but I would be interested to know how they determined the rats 'aged out'. Could also be a complete failure they spent considerable effort in with zero results, and are hand waving and constructing a way to quit while claiming success. I could see the rats not really connecting things and just puttering around. It's a pretty involved setup and I poor uptake on the part of the rats would be a steep disappointment.