Observed arrival · 2026-09-14
FLYTOWN Takes Apart an Autonomous Fruit-Fly Launch
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An evidence-led investigation argues that a token credited to a fruit-fly connectome was launched by human-authored software, then tests the connectome’s claimed computational advantage against controls.
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The investigation distinguishes a measured connection graph from the engineering choices used to run it: identical leaky-integrate-and-fire parameters, a fixed voltage multiplier, and trainable cell-type gains. It also maps the launch sequence in detail: DOM inspection selected the field, scripts supplied missing form values, and a Python-injected wallet signed the transaction. FLYTOWN reports four attempts across three jobs with no measured advantage over controls, while noting that it did not reproduce the original browser rig.
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