The trial aims to help people with quadriplegia control a computer cursor or keyboard.
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Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants—who’s in?
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This article might be more "funny, not funny" than any of your anti-vaxxer expositions, Dr. Mole.
It really does write itself, doesn't it?
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If it's safe, I'd suggest Elon Mush, David Sacks, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Tommy Tubbervile, Ron DeSantias... the list is so long.
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With there still being sycophantic fans of Musk, I'd say let them be the first. I mean, they think he's a genius, so put your life where your mouth is, slick.
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"Move fast and break things"
... is probably not a good ethos for a medical device manufacturer.
... is probably not a good ethos for a medical device manufacturer.
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I don't find Elon trustworthy or stable enough to undergo a possibly life-threatening procedure to further his research. It would be interesting to know if there's been any funny business around the approval process for this.
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Don't worry. Musk's cult probably has people lined up willing to pay to be in the trials.
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Nah, Cave Johnson actually listened to the 'lab rats' whereas Musk ignores them and orders things anyway (like removing LIDAR from Tesla cars).
Also, Cave died of a disease (I think it was like lung cancer?) while Musk has no signs of withering away.
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There will be enough people wanting to adopt this either because they are Musk fans, or have disabilities. Assuming this isnt baseless like Theranos it could mature, and become worthwhile. A safe, and advanced BCI that can be done outpatient would be significant in multiple respects, but as with everything regarding Musk, its in question by default.
I am convinced that there are many elements of the human mind that can be learned much faster with public adoption of BCI systems if we get a viable, cheap, safe, and advanced system. Maybe even get a breakthrough in personality disorders and other forms of mental illness
Hopefully this is successful despite Elon, and his "business acumen".
I am convinced that there are many elements of the human mind that can be learned much faster with public adoption of BCI systems if we get a viable, cheap, safe, and advanced system. Maybe even get a breakthrough in personality disorders and other forms of mental illness
Hopefully this is successful despite Elon, and his "business acumen".
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Oh come on guys. I mean what's the worst that could happen? What's a little untreatable brain infection and/or neural damage between friends? Just make sure you speak kindly of daddy Elon or he will stop your lungs from functioning.
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The sad thing is they're looking for quadriplegics - meaning the people who might sign up for have got to be fairly tempted because they have so much they've lost that they think they could gain back. If it were anyone else and if it didn't have the history of malpractice I'd be excited for this. But there's no way regulations should allow this shit to go through.
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Waiting for the first subject to have their implant turned off when they start thinking about organizing labor, equitable justice, or voting for increased taxes on the wealthy.
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Getting OceansGate vibes here.
Seems to me there's a very good chance this will go horribly wrong, and it'll be shocking to absolutely no one if it does.
Seems to me there's a very good chance this will go horribly wrong, and it'll be shocking to absolutely no one if it does.
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I am very, very leery about this. The development methodology of "move fast, break things and learn from failure" works for SpaceX when they're blowing up rockets (and is fun to watch too). Applying the same methodology to experimental human brain surgery is just fucking evil. But that's what Musk seems to be trying to do.
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Let Elmo do brain surgery? What could possibly go wrong? Isn't he the genius with successes at Tesla, SpaceX, and Xitter? Who's in?
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Feeling a little out of it, what show/movie is this? Like I recognize Adam Scott, but that’s about it.
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But unlike oceangate this isn't going to rid the world of any billionaires.
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Yeah, it actually is. It's basically a food fight over how many people do you have to pull in to get results that will be accepted as statistically significant. Since clinical trials are very, very expensive, the companies doing them would like that number to be as close to zero as possible.
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