Personally, I think I'll be avoiding anything that starts with "Elon Musk's..."
Yeah, I certainly won't use any product associated with that muskrat.
Things would have to seismically change in the tech/business world for me to trust any company enough to put something in my brain. That said, if I was forced to buy one the last two I would consider letting near my brain are Musk and Zuck
This is the one he cooked all those monkey brains for? Pass.
1,500 animals died, including 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys. Sounds really reliable.
i mean its likely not reliable but i bet some animal deaths are inevitable when developing a new implant. 1500 sounds way too high though.
He ignored his employees saying that the device wasn't ready and forced them to try it on the animals
Come on fans. This is your moment to shine and show us just how much you believe in his bullshit.
Don't you want to live like it's Cyberpunk 2077? Now's your chance!
Perhaps like one of the vegetables from 2077?
That fuck will sell ad space on the fucking thing and all you’ll get is Kanyes voice in your head chanting: “Elon macht frei” 24/7.
You can totally trust the guy who ran the biggest social media company into the ground within less than a year to surgically implant you with a device that has a 21% fatality rate.
Musk: "Scumbags of the world are welcome on my platforms!"
Also Musk: "Let me put this device in your brain."
It'll never get into testing...
Everyone that would volunteer, doesn't have a place for the implant to go
Where's this independent review board so we can strip them of all authority? The crimes and abuses this project has committed against animal subjects should have gotten it shut down a long time ago and the PI brought up on animal cruelty charges. I do not envy the neurosurgeons and trauma surgeons who are going to have to try to save any of the human participants.
I wonder if he’ll later say he only implanted people who were already dying with the devices.
As opposed to the rest of us who are not dying.
I had forgotten about this until you mentioned it..
I just found it stupid that he said only those who were dying were tested on... Everyone's dying, that's a shit excuse.
How long before Musk decides to charge per thought?
For $8, you get to be able to have basic motor function. For $10 a month, you get the rudiments of speech. For $15 a month, otherwise known as Neuralink Blue, you get free speech (free speech limited to what Elon approves of you saying).
He’s hoping to make your life pay to win.
It's already pay to win. They're trying to make it pay to live.
I can't wait to have ads in my dreams /s
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If you put any shit from this man in your head, you deserve what happens to you.
On the bright side, there will be a few less musk fans around after they are lobotomised.
Did they run out of monkeys?
No, anyone who signs up for this is one.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit ~~fools~~ humans for brain-implant trial
Interfacing with the brain is easy, we've been doing it for decades. Let me know when we can leave an implant in for a decade without it turning into a scar tissue tumor.
Although hopefully I'll have died of old age before that happens. Being able to plug in people is the basis of more dystopian nightmares than I can count, and I have zero confidence in our species ability to prevent those horrors from being reality.
If it works then it will be the ultimate advance in human capability since the invention of the internet. But i don't trust Elon to respect anyone's privacy rights.
What?
We've had implants that can control a mouse and even type on a keyboard for decades now...
Neurolink is just a less obvious interface, the gains are nowhere near worth the setbacks.
Regular science gets thing working then shrinks it down. Musk jumped straight to shrinking it down, and he just fucking can't get it to work.
We've had implants that can control a mouse and even type on a keyboard for decades now...
I don't really know if we've had other companies that are crazy enough to pierce the blood brain barrier, just for a brain interface machine.
There have been plenty of brain interface machines, but most are just pieces of headgear that you wear. And they're just as useful as Musk's interface..... not very.
When you utilize a traditional mouse you are relying on both visual and proprioceptive data, which is interpreted in conjunction in real time by your brain. Without the proprioceptive sensation, your brain loses track of where the mouse is in the operational space. Meaning it takes a large amount of concentration to operate anything with just the aid of visualization.
The biggest problem is that they've essentially designed a meningitis machine. For my job we occasionally have to set skull pins for halo devices, basically a cervical immobilizing brace. These pins pierce the skin and are set into the bone of the skull, though we don't pierce through the skull or damage the blood brain barrier.
These pins are extremely susceptible to infection depending on the level of patient compliance. Because the scalp is not firmly attached to the skull it's is free to move against the pins and create a lot of skin irritation, which can lead to infections if not properly cleaned on a regular basis.
It cannot "work". Even if it succeeded technically speaking, you cannot expect such a device to be secure (as no device is, and certainly not one made by Musk).
Now computerised cars are already an increasing risk in giving new ways to commit murder without being caught, but if you directly put a security risk in your brain, I am pretty sure that many people will jump on the occasion.
Even if it were secure, what happens to all the gen 1 implantees when gen 2 comes out? or when Musk decides to no longer support certain models? Imagine having a 2007 iphone stuck inside your brain, forever. Or I guess people could get brain surgery every few years. That seems reasonable.
We can worry about privacy after he stops melting brains.
We can't even get VR and AR right ans we don't even really know what to do with it. What are we going to use neuralink for? Turning off our TV with our minds?
I'm sure Musk will weep for anyone who dies in these experimentations. He's totally not a sociopath, you know?
Ok, that's neat. I wanna see him use it first.
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