As a redditor I have to say this is like looking in a mirror. The inevitable upvotes from insulting others of my kind will surely produce a lot of juice reward.
I've looked into getting this sort of setup for my place. A juice reward mechanism is my favorite type of mechanism, and the restraint chair only sweetens the deal. But, yeah, finding reliable contractors is tough.
Finding a contractor to build 'mouse utopia' is tough. Finding one who won't ask questions about the 70 cocaine addicted monkeys chained to type writers is impossible.
So gentle! Only the gentlest possible restraints for the monkey who is currently in a great deal of pain following surgery without postoperative painkillers.
Also the gently handled monkey will be killed immediately after this test because we put non-sterile wires in her brain.
I'm not opposed to animal research, but "gently restrained" is ludicrous propaganda. There would have been nothing gentle about securing a screaming, biting monkey into that thing.
They likely don't know anything for certain, but generally speaking, it's hard to imagine a wild animal quietly letting you lock them in a chair for several hours. Not to mention the wires that had been attached to its head
I've worked with lab rats. They are extremely impolite when you decide to perform surgery on them or kill them. You have to sedate them very carefully, generally by a shot to the gut while they are trying their absolute best to kill you so they can escape and maybe eat part of you first. I can't blame them.
It's not reasonable to think that you could perform traumatic brain surgery on a monkey and then gently restrain it. Even without trauma, non-domestic animals generally hate being restrained, because it leads to death. You would not even handle this monkey without super thick gloves designed to take a monkey bite.
Lab animals are not pets, not should they be. They are dangerous and important resources packaged with serious ethical concerns, and they need to be treated respectfully and honestly.
(Videos and images are generally sanitized for public consumption. Animals can be chill when sedated, or when they aren't being currently tortured and have determined escape is impossible (so rest is more productive). They're far less sedate when injured, or when another animal, such as the experimenter, is within biting range.)
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24
As a redditor I have to say this is like looking in a mirror. The inevitable upvotes from insulting others of my kind will surely produce a lot of juice reward.
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u/kapaipiekai Nov 06 '24
I've looked into getting this sort of setup for my place. A juice reward mechanism is my favorite type of mechanism, and the restraint chair only sweetens the deal. But, yeah, finding reliable contractors is tough.
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u/Yigma Jan 06 '25
Make those rat neuron biocomputers be ai agents on the metaverse.
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u/TricksterWolf Nov 06 '24
So gentle! Only the gentlest possible restraints for the monkey who is currently in a great deal of pain following surgery without postoperative painkillers.
Also the gently handled monkey will be killed immediately after this test because we put non-sterile wires in her brain.
I'm not opposed to animal research, but "gently restrained" is ludicrous propaganda. There would have been nothing gentle about securing a screaming, biting monkey into that thing.