• kia@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Are you trying to suggest that the guy who thought driving Teslas in tunnels underground was the most efficient method of transportation shouldn’t be trusted with inserting chips into people’s brains?

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      He didn’t actually think it was the most efficient. It’s way worse. He knew he could get a proposed high speed rail line killed so it wouldn’t cut into his car sales. He did not care one bit what happened after it died. Everything else was his PR team.

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        Oh for sure. He was absolutely sabotaging the proposed train network and it unfortunately worked…

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          The train from LA to Vegas is under construction. The problem in Vegas is that the casinos don’t want you leaving their property unless you’re headed to another property they also own. Musk’s tunnel just goes to the convention center and is obviously not a serious solution.

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      Oh you thought that was for damage prevention? No it’s actually to make sure it gets wet. I heard the Cybertruck’s trunk department QC’d it.

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    If you saw the build quality of Teslas, and his handling of Twitter, and him calling a diver a paedo, and you still thought “I should let that man perform medical experiments on me”, then you probably fucking deserve it tbh.

    Just go for it. What’s the worst that can happen? You get double brain damage?

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      Eh. He’s an asshole of the highest order but I imagine some people are willing to take the risk, given the impact it could have on their lives.

      I’m talking people who just exist at the moment and something like this might be beneficial to them.

      To be 100% clear, because yall some bitches at times. I find Elon an abhorrent person. Twitter is wank, Tesla is dead in the water and the boring company is just that.

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      I think it’s 'cause we know more about him. I think if we knew he was a whimsical dude and legitimately trying to help people instead of enriching himself, we’d see these pics and give him a bit more of a pass.

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    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    But anyone who’s ready to raise their hands for brain surgery might want to hear what one of the Neuralink co-founders recently said during an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

    The Wall Street Journal podcast The Future of Everything recently sat down with Dr. Benjamin Rapoport, a neurosurgeon who co-founded Neuralink with Musk and a team of scientists back in 2016.

    Rapoport left Neuralink to start his own company called Precision Neuroscience and one specific part of the interview really stood out to us.

    Brain-computer interfaces have made tremendous strides in the past decade, allowing people to literally control machines with their thoughts.

    Companies like Musk’s Neuralink tend to get all the headlines, but there are a number of firms, including Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience.

    Neuralink has received plenty of criticism over the years, with MIT Technology Review calling it “neuroscience theater” back in 2020, and horrifying allegations of monkey torture were revealed in 2022.


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    On one hand, yea I don’t want brain damage. On the other hand, if it means I can move robotic limbs after being paralyzed, maybe it’s still worth it?

    Like the idea of having neural interfaces that don’t penetrate the brain is obviously great, but if that tech doesn’t come for another 50 years, what are the current people going to do instead?

    I’m not on the waiting list for Neuralink, but if I’m gonna be honest, the hate for it is over amplified.

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      if it means I can move robotic limbs after being paralyzed, maybe it’s still worth it?

      I don’t mind the progress in science and technology.

      I don’t mind sacrificing some animals for that goal.

      The really terrible thought is that Elon is allowed to decide these things.

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        Is it terrible that Elon can decide these things? Because no one else is as close to succeeding, and Elon’s not forcing me to do it

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          Yes. He is famous for childish & narcissistic & choleric behaviour and nobody should trust him with any serious stuff.

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              No need to ‘address’ thin air.

              Experts are doing things. Elon isn’t doing things (except boasting his ego and manipulate people’s feelings etc)

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      I don’t think the concept is bad. I take a medicine that may give me cognition problems when I’m very old, but it’s remarkably effective for me right now and provides a significant quality of life improvement. So, I’ve chosen to stay on it.

      That’s different I think though from Neuralink as it is today. There need to be stringent safety measures in place and controls on testing. We’ve come a long way on neurology, but we still have a lot we don’t understand.