Show HN: Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life

10 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by cnqso

8 Comments

cnqso

5 hours ago

I'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

2 hours ago

I'm not convinced this is any better. A prison of stimuli is still a prison.

ninju

3 hours ago

Not sure what to do here.

How do I move the fly around

cnqso

2 hours ago

The fly has most of its motor functions cut in order to better enjoy the sugar

user

an hour ago

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catchnear4321

an hour ago

To make the fly happy we only had to cut most of the motor… hang on…

lioeters

44 minutes ago

A new twist on the torment nexus, oh sweet suffering.

naniel

2 hours ago

agree 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.