Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move within a subject’s head or that the chip could overheat.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Neuralink said in a blog post that it was looking for people who had paralysis in all four limbs because of a spinal-cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, these people are willing to take a risk in order to overcome difficult conditions, and that should be allowed. On the other hand, it feels like Neuralink is preying on their hopes.
If the company figurehead wasn’t a libertarian billionaire edgelord, I might look past that second hand. No chance of that, though. He’s going to kill people, and then he’s going to retweet memes about it.
Wasn’t there a report about dozens of dead monkeys from animal trials a few months ago?
I dont think they reached dozens, but yes this is the same project that had dead monkey headlines rolling around
Not just dead, lot’s of suffering beforehand. Those were some nauseating stories.
I’ve read a lot of disturbing stuff on the internet but those descriptions of what the monkeys endured made me feel really uncomfortable
Well good news, if they implant in paralyzed patients and it doesn’t work no one will be able to tell they are suffering.
Science cannot move forward without heaps of dead monkeys!
I saw that movie, it’s called “Upgrade”
There’s also the TV show “upload”
On the other hand, it feels like Neuralink is preying on their hopes.
It’s not different than any other experimental treatment.
The sentence after the one you quoted explains how this is different from other treatments (it’s Musk). With any other company, the question wouldn’t have even entered my mind.
The vitriol against anything vaguely Musky on lemmy is so perplexing to me.
It’s nuts that people will froth at the mouth at the merest suggestion they consider buying a Tesla, and then drive off in their Volkswagen.
It’s not just Lemmy, it’s all of the communities and people that he constantly trolls and shits on. The only people he hasn’t tried to piss off are neo-fascists and Russians. If someone doesn’t see that, they must not be paying attention. Which, well… that’s not a bad idea, to be honest.
Regardless, it’s nice that everyone is finally waking up to the fact that he’s just a grifter who likes to call non-grifters pedos.
Also, I caught the comment you made next to this one; what client are you using that shows downvotes? If they’re actually downvoted (shows +1 to me), it’s likely because the sentence, right after the one they quoted, answered their question. So, the comment as-is didn’t really add anything to the conversation.
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted- Your point is accurate and adds to the conversation. Welcome to reddit, I guess.
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I admit, under the right circumstances, cybernetic enhancements could be cool.
Anything connected in any way with Elon Musk is emphatically not the right circumstances, of course.
What I wouldn’t give for a cybernetic gastrointestinal tract. Maybe one where it combines a trash compactor with the butt, so I could literally shit bricks.
I would like a CGT just because mine is so freaking sensitive
We’re dumb animals, not much different from other dumb animals.
If squirrels had news media, they could have a story that says, “Thousands of squirrels are lining up to try to cross busy streets in front of cars.”
And some number of squirrels would read that and think, “What the hell is wrong with them?”
At least crossing the street gives them a chance of getting to the acorns. This achieves nothing.
This is very funny.
I mean, if I couldn’t communicate with the outside world or have use of my limbs I would take any risk to regain that functionality. This could have a real shot of giving people with terrible conditions a better quality of life.
Lots of stuff.
“Think about how dumb the average person is. Now, realize that half of them are dumber than that.”
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- George Carlin
*the median person
Yes, but that wasn’t the quote.
Median is a kind of average, like mean and mode.
I don’t think there’s a better response than this.
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Even if it was safe “Fitbit in your skull” sounds awful
“Please track my thoughts and sell the data, daddy Elon!” - the people lining up for this probably
With that chip they won’t need to sell your data, they sell you as entity. And if emperor Elon says clap, then you’ll clap your hands.
And then there’s the ads…
Yeah eventually they’ll come
Futurama being ahead of its time
gotta get my STEPS bro
This reminds me of that corporate quest in Starfield where you learn what they were doing at the clinic. Surreal…
As I said in another thread about nLink:
Anyone getting this shit will die just like every single fucking monkey test subject. If they don’t die, their suffering will be unbearable
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
Go on Elon, show us how it’s done and take the first one
Dad got his brain chip in 2010. Worked great. Had nothing to do with neuralink. They’ve been doing these implants safely for at least that long. The fact that musk can’t keep monkeys alive says a lot about the fact that neuralink isn’t ready.
That’s fascinating, could you share a manufacturer name? I’d love to look into what kind of brain chips are out there that aren’t from phony stark
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What the hell does that chip even do?
Epilepsy treatment I imagine.
🎵Zuckerberg and Gates and Buffet, amateurs can fuckin’ suck it; fuck their wives, drink their blood 🎵
Come on Jeff, get em!
AAHHHHHHHH
Bro I hate that this song lives rent free in my head. FUCK Bezos but GOD it’s such a bop, I’ll always listen again when it comes up so I can listen again. Time to watch Inside again
I love seeing Bo in the wild
To be fair, everyone who doesn’t get one will die too
Love that they’re calling it a Fitbit in your skull. Cause Fitbit is currently dying and removing support. Imagine getting a skull implant that stops getting support and updates after a year, and you now have a useless device in your brain
This would be a cool Tom Scott dystopia because he definetly read that already
you now have a useless device in your brain
I think that if you are one of the first to volunteer for this, then you probably wouldn’t notice.
Imagine a new model coming out a month later.
“Your trial subscription to module: ‘breathing’ will end in 30 days. If you’d like to continue your subscription please accept the new terms and conditions and link your payment method using the following link.”
P.s. I know neuralink cannot do this… Yet
This is like self-solving problem then?
This timeline sucks.
Just wait until everyone’s required to get one of these as a condition of employment for most jobs. By the time enough people get pissed off enough about it to try to do something, it’ll be too late.
Drug free workplace act? That’s old news how about a free will-free workplace.
This is some anti-vax level bullshit.
Oh ffs no near timeline is going to require literal brain surgery for a condition of employment. Why the hell would they want you to be able to look at porn while you work?
tf is my skull gonna do with a fitbit?
It’s useful for keeping track of your mental gymnastics.
Brilliant. Purchasing now.
I’m sure Musk won’t randomly disable any features remotely.
Yeah. Or at least only the ones that use microservices. So… No worries…?
Elon Musk has an excellent track record for remote disabled features.
I would guess, and this is completely a guess, these are Elon fans who think that the vaccines were dangerous and had microchips in them.
He’s done wonders with Twitter/Tesla/spacex, I don’t see how he could foul this up
And that Hyperloop is the only way to travel.
I knew I forgot a revolutionary achievement. Thank you.
SpaceX is doing fine, I have read that they don’t let him mess it up
Everyone needs to read about the poor monkeys in these trials.
Horrific.
I’m happy they’ve moved on from testing on unwilling monkeys, to willing humans.
Yeah, that shit’s how you end up with planet of the apes
It does not surprise me that muskrats would sign up for this. Theyre basically brainwashed anyway so a chip wouldnt really change much.
