Rats Play Doom

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takira•37m ago

I did not expect this to be as thoughtful as it is. Kudos to the thought put into the setup and training. Building custom hardware for the rat is amazing.. I need something like this for my own setup.

gpderetta•31m ago

Well, the most cyberpunk thing I have read today. No video of rats killing Daemons though, only a promising but broken link.

quasarj•27m ago

How can he not include a video of it working? D:

raldi•25m ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0wjaeEiin8&t=17s

camtarn•17m ago

That's the previous setup from four years ago, where the rats just run down a straight corridor.

purplecats•11m ago

i think its just people being out of touch with reality. perhaps engineering minds not thinking enough product. its too commonplace for me to even complain about. someone builds something primarily visual - a robot, a GUI application, etc. and links to their github/etc but they ensure that there are no visuals included.

ginkoleaf•20m ago

For those afraid to click: This does not appear to hurt the rats or involve doing any surgery on them.

escapecharacter•12m ago

Is it ethical to turn rats into gamers?

ginkoleaf•3m ago

Gamers: no, hot-tub streamers: yes

actionfromafar•3m ago

I first read doing any sugary to them. Well, that's nice.

shmeeed•17m ago

checks notes I'm sorry, this doesn't qualify to run in the category "running DOOM on <device>"

a3w•14m ago

Yet. 2035: running Doom on rat brains.

shmeeed•9m ago

Would fit right in with LLMs' recent HN front page predictions.

cogman10•2m ago

running rats on doom?

shmeeed•11m 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?

delegate•10m ago

I wonder if the team at id considered this when they released Doom: In 30 years rats will be forced to play it in exchange for sugar water.

shmeeed•7m ago

I don't think they considered it, but I'm positive they would have found it absolutely hilarious

neilv•7m ago

Treat those rats well, now that you've trained them for combat.

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