Fruit Fly Trading Desk

A real fruit fly CT scan paper-trades banana futures in front of six screens. The chart moves its own motion detectors, 60,000 real neurons from the MaleCNS connectome decide which way it leans, and a crash on screen fires its escape reflex. It trades alone, against buy-and-hold and a coin. Paper money only.

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