If it were anyone but Musk’s company I might be excited at the prospects of this tech.
Yeah, I don’t like a guy who consistently tries to embody “move fast, break stuff” in the places I least want that to be the case.
You would? I wouldn’t trust anyone to install anything in my body that doesn’t preserve my life. Much less any corporations.
What about the ones that do preserve life? Like pacemakers? How long before we see all these anti consumer corporate BS panning out on those?
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Good rule for life… NEVER let someone cut you open unless it will save your life or drastically improve it. I was thinking along the lines of quadriplegics regaining autonomy than just futurisms. I could get excited about something that gives people their lives back. Would that ever come out of a company run by Musk? I highly doubt it. But if it weren’t him or other tech bros there could be a chance that it could turn into something that helps people.
I don’t know but I’d bet the person who got that implant is in a desperate situation without much to lose.
I know neuralink’s first focus is on things like deep brain stimulation, which can take a person from having almost constant tremors and rictus, to be able to use their body. So I’d wager this particular implant probably has some potentially huge upside for someone who’s living in hell already anyway.
I hope so!
It’s one of the things that potentially prevent the technological singularity. That’s undoubtedly why the self-important Musk has an interest in it.
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
And you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
Not me, this will lead to malware installed in the brain.
You think popups are bad now?
Wait till you get them in your dreams.
I fully agree with you.
Elon should be first in line to demonstrate how safe and side effect free this technology is!
I have a lot of negative opinions about Steve Jobs - but I admit he was one CEO that would have been so specific about the technology and so determined to get it perfect the first time that I could see him doing it to himself first.
It’s that same determination that he told himself that he could cure his own cancer.
That’s true. I could see Steve Jobs doing it.
Hell, on a fucking stage even. “This … is a surgical robot. Our first patient will sit down in here in just a minute, and you’ll be able to see the first device implantation ever”
“Hey Siri, are you ready?”
“I’m ready Steve. Are you?”
“No time like the present.”
“Please have a seat”
“This is what I found on the web for stop Siri I’m feeling too much pain please stop oh god no no nooooooooo!”
Why in the actual fuck did the FDA approve human trials?
Do they get Elon’s dumbass tweets projected in their mind, now?
So they definitely haven’t, then
The Other Shoe: the first recipient was Mitch McConnell, and his episodes lately have been during firmware updates.
McConnell’s brain waves endanger other systems with runaway random viruses
Maybe the subject can be uploaded to a Tesla Bot as a backup
