It seems the OpenWorm project is stuck in development hell, "only 20 to 30 percent of the way towards where we need to get." Still waiting to simulate the full neural activities of the worm on a computer. #cyberpunk
If there's no progress to be made, perhaps they should reallocate the budget to develop open source CRISPR cat ears instead. 
Just searched "Whole Brain Emulation" at LessWrong to see if there's any claimed progress by the Doomsday Paperclip AI gang. Disappointingly, the top result was about the C. elgans worm simulation from 2010, not a good sign...
In that post the OpenWorm project leader even personally showed up and replied. And hilariously, in its follow up blog post, it contained the quote from a project leader of another MIT effort...
> In particular, I expect to be finished with C. elegans in 2-3 years. I would be Extremely Surprised, for whatever that's worth, if this is still an open problem in 2020.
It's still in development hell as of 2021.
Perhaps time to register a LW account and post a rant, some insiders may show up again and explain what went wrong... Again, If there's no progress to be made, perhaps they should reallocate the budget to develop CRISPR cat ears instead.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XhHetxjWxZ6b85HK9/whole-brain-emulation-looking-at-progress-on-c-elgans #cyberpunk #transhumanism
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elgans After 10 Years https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brain-emulation-no-progress-on-c-elgans-after-10-years
Just did what I said yesterday: registered a LessWrong account and posted a rant about the progress of the C. elgans worm neural simulation projects. It's now on the front page. Let's see whether the Doomsday Paperclip AI gang has anything new to say. #cyberpunk #transhumanism
@niconiconi recurring donations would help
https://openworm.org/donate.html
OpenWorm is providing important components in the data collection, simulation, and visualization chains, but a lot of the effort is coordinating with labs to share data and get it into a format usable by the wider C. elegans community. Donations can help with things like fees for publication and conferences (helps coordination efforts) or for computer resources (e.g., for simulation, web service hosting). Much more recently, there's also the "studentship" program which should help incentivize data sharing.
