Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says
"Initial results show promising neuron spike detection," Musk added. Reuters reported earlier this month that Neuralink was fined for violating U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rules regarding the movement of hazardous materials.
RIP to whoever was desperate enough to try it. Hopefully they don’t die as painfully as the Neuralink monkeys did.
Imagine offering up your own brain (and probably life) for a
betaalpha version of a prototype from a guy who's products have never left the beta stage?As a software engineer myself there are certain things I know I never want to work on. Things like heart pumps and diagnostic machines where firmware needs to be so incredibly precise that one fuckup and people literally die. And these people trust the guy who makes Teslas. They're fun to drive... I wouldn't stick one in my brain though.
So what if you had the capability to be good at that heart pump software, and by not doing it you’re letting in someone who’s not as good as you at it.
Not trying to trap you or anything, but at a certain point somebody’s gotta do that high stakes stuff.
Maybe you know you’re not good at that kind of precision stuff, and I respect that. But maybe the difference between you and the guy who did step up to do that work isn’t that he has more skill, but merely less humility.
Maybe you, the one scared shitless of the ramifications of a mistake, are the one for that job.
I don't know what it is about Teslas, but everytime my wife and I get in one, we start feeling carsick after a while. It's only with Teslas too.
Still, as much as I'd never buy a Tesla, it is a functional car for the most part, and worst case you turn on the hazards and pull over (if the car doesn't actively try to kill you). A brain implant sounds like an absurdly horrible idea. What's the best outcome of one of these anyway? Ads playing in your thoughts?
Don't worry. The first human is already dead anyway.
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.
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.
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”
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