Well yeah fuck that guy and this program and it's implications, but this particular issue doesn't sound too unexpected considering the scope of the procedure.

I'm all for the science, but you know this is going to be some directly streamed ads hellspace we'll never escape from if it comes to fruition.

Here's a good rule for this sort of thing to move forward: No implants before right to privacy and freedom from advertising.

I am shocked.

I mean, I'd like to be surprised that a technology driven by a techbro with the "move fast and break things" mentality has broken because of moving too quickly into human trials, but....

I guess we should just count ourselves lucky that the poor human ~~test subject~~ patient wasn't permanently harmed by Musk's raging arrogance.

Not that I wanted one or trusted Musk before, but after the cyber truck fiasco I couldn't imagine lol

No, really??? /s

Edit: Honestly it's not as bad as I expected.

Just ignore this clown and his bullshit. Stop reporting on him and his companies, it'll drive him nuts.

Buckaroo Banzai was working on similar tech all the way back in 1984!

RAWHIDE:Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.

STAR SURGEON: What, like "raise my left arm"?

RAWHIDE: Or "throw the harpoon," . People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.

Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make

Lord Farquaad

It’s a con. There is no chip. None that works. This is Holmes 2.0. Except he may never be caught. The project will get into more “problem” and he’ll string investors along to secure himself a net positive position before letting it languish into oblivion. It’s probably one of the things that’s actually making him money.

Break down the whole thing. What am I supposed to go to McChip to get some kid with 6 weeks training to install these? If not some doctors with a 8y waiting list? How do you scale that part of the process? Doctors aren’t bountiful. And expensive.

And the elephant in the room: you can’t shove some electrodes into your midbrain and do things. The video of the guy moving the cursor around can be done now in macOS Sonoma with accessibility features. It would have been a different story if he was actually thinking about opening a photo from 3 years ago and it did that. But he was just moving a cursor around.

All he’s actually accomplished outside of lining his coffers is kill a bunch of innocent apes.

I would have hoped that before putting this implant in the guy's brain that they had a plan for what to do in this situation. Like coming up with a method to potentially reseat the retreated "threads" it without invasive surgery. Especially if this it's a recurring issue.

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