If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval
As someone who likes the idea of transhumanism:
I’ma fuckin’ pass, dog.
Dude cant even get the software on teslas to work right and we are going to trust him with brain implants? Lol
And what company would you currently trust to make brain implants?
I believe the answer to that one to be “fucking not a-one”, but that’s just an educated guess of course.
I just love the assumption that we have to have brain implants (why? Because L. Ron Musk said so?)
I think it’s the sci-fi fantasy of it. Like being able to download knowledge like the matrix.
In reality the real use of these is to help people with brain injuries or disabilities.
Elno wants to grift people on the former. Literally everything he does is selling people the knock off wish version of something from a sci-fi movie/book/game.
I can’t help but think brain implants are an inherently bad idea.
Look how it went for monkey test subjects. 😳
They were going to ask for volunteers from Musk’s legions of loyal fans, but then they realised the subjects needed to have brains.
Just finished my first cuppa and had a nice and literal lol. Thanks for starting my day right!
Yeah same here, I’m much more curious about Valve’s foray into BCIs. GabeN mentioned in an interview a few years ago that they’re closer than we think and I want to know what he’s cooking up.
Whatever it is, it’ll probably start with “wake up Mr. Freeman”
Finally, Mecha GabeN is near.
He wants to use this technology to “cure autism,” which sounds like it’s coming from a position of self-loathing, projected onto everybody else. If he wants to stick chips into his brain, fine, but personally, I don’t need a cure for the disease of being me.
I want a brain chip in theory.
I don’t want any current human to have anything to do with it. The average human’s comprehension of life, consciousness, what it is to be human etc are so far behind ideal, I wouldn’t trust anyone currently alive to start testing a direct brain-computer interface.
In several hundred years when we have Trek style space communism, sure!
Just imagine the possibility of space capitalism. War, war everywhere :D
So… Star Trek…
The only thing the Federation really did was convince people to work for free. They still had wars- lots of them, in fact- still had a military (one which
trained kids in the fieldthought it was a good idea to have kids onbattleships“exploration” ships)The Ferengi’s 34th rule of acquisition is: War is good for business. They themselves never waged war though, curiously.
35th rule of acquisition: Peace is good for Business.
Or maybe it’s the other way around I always get those two mixed up.
Depends on how you defined war.
The ferengi ship where Picard makes
firstsecond or third contact above the power draining planet was an equal to the enterprise.“Oh but the federation doesn’t build warships”… the enterprise is more than a match for romulan and Klingon battle ships.
The Ferengi have a military sure but its primary use is to protect their enterprises, not to wage war on other factions. Also who are you talking to that claimed the federation doesn’t build warships? It certainly wasn’t me.
The federation itself.
The defiant was a big deal because it was a warship, and the Feds “don’t do that”. Even though most their ships are in fact heavily armed and capable of at least holding their own against “dedicated” warships of (frequently very) hostile civilizations
I see where you’re coming from. The Defiant-Class are definitely a purposefully designed “Warship” and the first Starfleet has made in a long time at that point. Yeah I concede the point. I look at a ship like the Galaxy-Class with its phaser arrays etc and I think warship but it was built and designed during a time of peace, Starfleet wouldn’t have viewed it as a warship.
It’s an exploration ship… that’s almost big enough to qualify as a mobile starbase given the civilian population. Having armaments isn’t stupid, especially given how often they rejiggered the phasers to act as a tool rather than a weapon.
I’mma call it right here, shot will go south, quickly, people will end up in prison, and Musk will somehow not be one of them.
i give it max a year or two after the first implant before we read about trials starting in the headlines.
I mean, it didn’t go well for the monkeys. Maybe if they are fucking people up, someone will stop them, but I doubt it.
This is the part of this story that I remember. It went so well with the monkeys so now they get to try on humans?
I’m pretty sure everything you need to understand the answer to your questions can be summed up in two words. Elon Musk.
So you expect trials after the trial?
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When I look at what he’s done to Twitter, I definitely think ‘yeah I want this dude’s chip in my head!’
Given a descendant of this technology has the potential for seizure moderation, which is something my sister basically will need as the medication she uses will inevitably require doses that would destroy her liver or leave her all but vegetative. It’s super interesting from a technical aspect and hyper-relevant.
However, given Musk’s antics especially as of late? I wouldn’t trust him to not accidentally intentionally kill people, or use it as a way to have an unremovable keylogger with the end goal of ‘Oh those are some nice eyes you’ve got there,’ or ‘lovely able to live without going into convulsions isn’t it? It’d be a shame if that changed.’
If someone offends him on Twitter and if they got a brain chip, it’s the end of 'em.
I wouldn’t trust Musk if he told me that water makes things wet.
He’s a snake oil salesman.
Exactly what we need, billionaires tinkering with brain chips. I‘d rather die than have anything from Musk in my head, bad enough the knowledge of his existence is in there.
Ha! Him first.
What a fucking echo chamber this place is. Rename the community to /c/FuckMusk and get it over with
Well the best way to not have us talk about Musk like he’s a moron is for Musk to stop acting like a moron.
Just like complete FSD is only a year away… And how about that Cybertruck
Yeah the left doesn’t have any room to talk, at all:
- Holodomor
- Great Leap “Forward”
- Xinjiang/Uyghur Genocide
- Khmer Rouge
- Tiananmen Square
- Fidel Castro’s Cuba
- Stalin’s USSR
Many such regimes which were also oppressive of the poor, foreign, ethnic minorities, and neurodivergent. I am sure you will simp for and/or deny every single one of them, though, as you leftists always do.
The left will never be deserving of the benefits of the contract, they’ve killed more people in the 20th century than all forms of cancer, many major diseases, smoking (bundled into the cancer point somewhat), all forms of accidents, etc
What does this have to do with brain implants…
It’s pretty funny to see someone in the wild who actually thinks because those were Communist countries, the persons in charge must have been ‘Leftists’.
And damn those Leftists down in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee for growing all that tobacco using slave labor and then lobbying the government for the right to sell their product even though they knew it killed people!
115 comments and -320 karma. Stay woke guy, you’ll get em next time for sure.
What are you angry about?
Dude’s political flambaiting. Flag and move on.
Honestly I won’t get one but I’m fine for Elon to break into it. I kinda feel like that’s the only thing he does well. Funnels money into concepts people believe are impossible. Fail until there’s some small success and let other, more competent people learn from those failures. I think I’d rather have that than stay stagnant and/or have the Russian brain chip become the standard
Good point. Let’s see what comes of this. Like I have said, I would welcome a chip if it solves my brain’s issues (instead of side effect laden medication) and it’s likely that the chip I want would be from one of those folks that learn from failure.
The important thing is people can’t just casually reprogram the damned thing.
having an ability to diagnose and correct without cracking your head open is fine, but it has to be a way that’s 'you’re giving positive affirmation that you’re OK with it or a medical professional is physically having to plug a thing in or on or … just so it can’t be ‘oh hey yo ustepped through these induction plates. we turned your anti-siezure chip off due to your non-compliance.’
Where are all those people who were worried vaccines had chips in them? Now this guy is literally saying he’s going to chip you and nothing lol
Consistency is not a hallmark of conservatism; being a numpty is.
I don’t believe in the vaccine-chip nonsense, but I think there’s consistency there: it’s about informed consent. There’s a huge difference between being told by the government to take a vaccine that secretly has a chip in it, and Elon Musk offering chips for sale. If you choose to buy Musk’s chip, you’re doing so voluntarily and you know that you are getting a chip.
Plus, how many of the tinfoil hats are cheering on Neuralink?
The difference is that the vaccine physically can’t have a chip. It’s impossible for that level of technology to be injected into muscle through a needle.
If he wants to get in front of the line then he’s welcome to.
Do you want a super villain? Because that’s how we get super villains.