Early, undocumented, mass implantation in human subjects WOULD explain some of the fanboyism of late…
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If the IEEE (electrical engineering society) is saying something it must be really bad. They rarely if ever get involved in things like this.
Neuralink announced in September that it was recruiting volunteers for its human study. Thousands of people have reportedly signed up to receive the brain implant.
Welp…
Why do they want it? What does it actually do?
Kills you painfully with a brain infection, I think. I don’t really see the appeal.
Neuralink's device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.
The company hopes that a person would potentially be able to control a mouse, keyboard or other computer functions like text messaging with their thoughts.
"First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs," Musk said in April 2021
https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-elon-musks-brain-chip-company-neuralink-do-2022-12-05/
Neuralink’s device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.
Haven't we already been able to do that with non-invasive EKG sensors strapped to the temples before?
So are these thousands of people disabled? Because that would be the silver lining. I dont think the trials will go well, but I mean thats how desperate these people are. And at least the tech is being worked in some form. But the siccest shit comes out of the worst assholes.
I'd imagine most of the people signing up haven't actually looked into it and are envisioning Matrix shit or something. Like the thousands of people who signed up for Mars One
Matrix shit? Like being forced to be a drone in a monotonous VR world while their bodies are harvested for energy until they fail? Doesn't really seem like an aspirational situation but I guess there must be a few Cyphers out there ..
No. This kind of thing is being worked on by legitimate academic neuroscientists at places like Stanford. They abide by a code of medical and scientific ethics. That’s where this kind of thing is going to come from.
They’re not going to come from some guy who killed a $44B company by making the stupidest move possible at every decision branch.
It probably could do those things, but instead it'll harvest your thoughts to send advertising keywords to Twitter, and play unskippable ads directly inside of your brain.
I've always wanted to give corporations access to my thoughts
Oh, they’re going to get so sued if they actually do this. I’m picturing the window-shatter demo of the cybertruck, but with brains.
They’ll die or beg to die just like all of those monkeys
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
How about you step up and be patient zero Mr phony stark wannabe
I wonder how many of those bag lickers that volunteered refused to get the Covid vaccine.
If only there was a government agency with both the will and the authority to do something. Oh well.
No sane, nondisabled person would allow Elon to put anything in their brain
If they are not disabled before, they will soon.
Those NFT bros would probably jump at the first chance.
It would be good riddance.
This reminds me of Trump's contribution to covid " uh can't you just flash light on it, or drink chlorine?". Just truly brilliant people having world changing ideas. "We'll surgically implant chips into brains.. ignore the dead chimps
You can't install adblocker on neuralink, but thankfully for you, nazi propaganda comes free of charge.
The only way this should be allowed to move forward is if the board of directors all have the procedure done first.
Can I have two of those?
You ready to get a montage reel of people pulling their brains out while screaming, straight from a scifi horror movie?
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