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Alex Wissner-Gross
Personal blog · theinnermostloop.substack.comaiscience
Alex Wissner-Gross writes The Innermost Loop, a personal blog at theinnermostloop.substack.com about ai and science. Since 2026, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack by Alex Wissner-Gross for its posts on brain emulation, such as the multi-behaviour fly brain model and the living neurons playing Doom, alongside AI consciousness.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
High-velocity intelligence from the event horizon. Curated by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross. Click to read The Innermost Loop, by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross,
Most-linked posts?
- The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2026-03-07
What Hacker News says?
openworm is kinda old, new ones do better: https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-beha...
Comment linking /p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload
on “No, Artificial Intelligence is not Conscious - Ted Chiang”Submitted The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthis is a related article https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-beha...
Comment linking /p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload
on “Emulation of the Drosophila Fly Brain”Submitted Chain Theory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt is creepy, I agree. I saw this article over the weekend and felt similarly: https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-beha... > Watch the video closely. What you are seeing is not an animation. It is not a reinforcement learning policy mimicking biology. It is a copy of a biological brain, wired neuron-to-neuron from electron microscopy data, running in simulation, making a body move. And the simula…
Comment linking /p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload
on “Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1”Submitted The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The first multi-behaviour brain upload as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whole Brain Emulation of a Fruit Fly in a Simulated World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload as a story · 1 points
HN discussion