Elon: "No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant. First our early implants, to minimize risk to healthy monkeys, we chose terminal moneys (close to death already)."
No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant.
First our early implants, to minimize risk to healthy monkeys, we chose terminal moneys (close to death already),
People with locked in syndrome have occasionally been given early BCIs on this justification, but generally they're already consenting (IIRC the first real recipient of one had to have it taken back out at the end due to ethics requirements, despite wanting to keep it.)
I wonder what Elon really means by terminal. How elastic is the term? The monkeys were old? Or some of the monkeys were old? Or some of the monkeys might have been old? Or all the monkeys were adult monkeys so "terminal" means "not juvenile".
Bazingas will still go because they want le epic cyberpunkerinos head chips and are totally not part of a death cult.
EDIT: Not long ago, a very leftist leftist who was as leftist as they came said that people dying to these chips is inevitable and desirable because ultimately everyone would benefit and would have to get the promised improved brain chips that would come after such deaths, all distributed by billionaire vampires and doing what they wished, as a "liberating" step toward achieving... leftism... somehow.
They just had a bunch of terminally ill research monkeys hanging about. That's definitely a thing that happens. It's definitely not like live primate studies are so hard to both arrange and get past an ethics board that most people just give up and go straight to human trials,
Well obviously when you're installing your half assed attempt at a synth component designed by somebody who saw a couple episodes of Altered Carbon into a living creature you use the old monkeys first. You don't murder the fresh monkeys until you've killed all the old ones smh
So what he is saying it is good to torture nearly dead beings? Would he want to be experimented on when he is about to die instead of getting palliative care? I doubt it.