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Show HN: Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life
- cnqso 27d agoI've seen many projects so far subjecting this poor fly to various manmade horrors, so I tried to do the opposite. The name is an intentional play off of "Infinite Pain" by Harris Rosenblum, a 2025 artwork in which a simulated nematode nervous system is provided with continuous pain stimuli. In Travis Diehl's critique of this work he writes: "The piece conveys a negative aura simply in that the artists decided to build a torture chamber. Why not a nematode orgasmatron?"
- empressplay 27d agoI'm not convinced this is any better. A prison of stimuli is still a prison.
- ninju 27d agoNot sure what to do here. How do I move the fly around
- naniel 27d agoagree with this. i don't see the point of the terrarium if the fly never moves or really changes at all, other than seeing to twitch faster when sugar is on.
- cnqso 27d agoThe fly has most of its motor functions cut in order to better enjoy the sugar
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- catchnear4321 27d agoTo make the fly happy we only had to cut most of the motor… hang on…
- lioeters 27d agoA new twist on the torment nexus, oh sweet suffering.