Life & fun · September 8, 2026
Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life
A fruit fly simulation receiving continuous sugar stimulation.
Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life launched on September 8, 2026 with 10 votes, #993 of 8,097 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Infinite Sugar is a simulated fruit fly based on a complete neural map of a Drosophila melanogaster brain. The fly's taste neurons are continuously stimulated to experience the sensation of sugar, while its motor outputs and visual inputs are largely disconnected to focus on this pleasurable state. Created as a thought experiment in moral philosophy, it explores what a simulated creature's experience might be under conditions of constant reward.
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is a fly simulated through whole brain emulation using the FlyWire connectome, reconstructed from the brain of an adult female Drosophila melanogaster . ’s sweet-sensing gustatory neurons are manually stimulated, simulating a constant stream of infinite sugar. This is presumably quite pleasant for . Most of ’s motor output is disconnected from its simulated musculature, and visual input from the terrarium is not provided, to allow it greater focus on the pleasurable sensation of the sugar. We believe this may be of note as a solution to moral philosophy. As technology advances, we may be able to simulate pleasant lives for increasingly complex forms of life. Some movements use supplied…from infinitesugar.cnqso.com
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