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- transhumanism@infosec.pub
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
- GeekFTW ( @GeekFTW@kbin.social ) 109•1 year ago
As someone who likes the idea of transhumanism:
I’ma fuckin’ pass, dog.
- Yewb ( @Yewb@kbin.social ) 32•1 year ago
Dude cant even get the software on teslas to work right and we are going to trust him with brain implants? Lol
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
Look how it went for monkey test subjects. 😳
- hoilst ( @hoilst@kbin.social ) 25•1 year ago
They were going to ask for volunteers from Musk’s legions of loyal fans, but then they realised the subjects needed to have brains.
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Just finished my first cuppa and had a nice and literal lol. Thanks for starting my day right!
- gus ( @gus@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
And what company would you currently trust to make brain implants?
- blomkalsgratin ( @blomkalsgratin@kbin.social ) 28•1 year ago
I believe the answer to that one to be “fucking not a-one”, but that’s just an educated guess of course.
- hoilst ( @hoilst@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
I just love the assumption that we have to have brain implants (why? Because L. Ron Musk said so?)
- GreatBigJerk ( @GreatBigJerk@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
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.
- Magzter ( @Magzter@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Musk aside, BCI will be a significant part of human lives in the distant future, they will initially aid existing tech but as the technology advances I can forsee a black mirror-esque future with our brains having a digital component.
- JayGarrick ( @JayGarrick@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
or you know like from the 1st Kingsman movie
- kool_newt ( @kool_newt@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
I can’t help but think brain implants are an inherently bad idea.
- Astigma ( @Astigma@feddit.uk ) 25•1 year ago
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.
- Deceptichum ( @Deceptichum@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
Finally, Mecha GabeN is near.
- Rayspekt ( @Rayspekt@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
Immortal Mecha GabeN is the solution against enshittification in gaming.
- bstix ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) 3•1 year ago
Whatever it is, it’ll probably start with “wake up Mr. Freeman”
- HansGruber ( @HansGruber@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Yeah same.
Just hope Musk won’t ruin people’s perception for this or similar kind of tech. - Chloé 🥕 ( @carotte@mastodon.social ) 1•1 year ago
- SnowboardBum ( @SnowboardBum@kbin.social ) 39•1 year ago
If he wants to get in front of the line then he’s welcome to.
- rynzcycle ( @rynzcycle@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Do you want a super villain? Because that’s how we get super villains.
- Kichae ( @Kichae@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
It’s way, way more likely to kill him.
I’m willing to take that risk.
- Flaky_Fish69 ( @Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Or vegetables.
Super easy to just, forget to install the firmware…
- FiskFisk33 ( @FiskFisk33@kbin.social ) 32•1 year ago
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.
- Deceptichum ( @Deceptichum@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
So you expect trials after the trial?
- FiskFisk33 ( @FiskFisk33@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
<3
- AttackBunny ( @AttackBunny@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
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.
- end0fline ( @End0fLine@startrek.website ) 0•1 year ago
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?
- AttackBunny ( @AttackBunny@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I’m pretty sure everything you need to understand the answer to your questions can be summed up in two words. Elon Musk.
- californiarepublik ( @californiarepublik@kbin.social ) 29•1 year ago
When I look at what he’s done to Twitter, I definitely think ‘yeah I want this dude’s chip in my head!’
- LostCause ( @LostCause@kbin.social ) 25•1 year ago
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.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
This is all you need to know from the article:
“On at least four occasions since 2019, Musk predicted that Neuralink would soon start human trials.”
- Flaky_Fish69 ( @Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
How many times has he missed the mark on Tesla full self driving?
- tomve_cz ( @tomve_cz@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Mercedes Benz has approval in California for self driving. It has bigger level than Tesla … lol
- ImplyingImplications ( @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ) 13•1 year ago
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
- Granite ( @Granite@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Consistency is not a hallmark of conservatism; being a numpty is.
- skogens_ro ( @skogens_ro@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
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?
- exohuman ( @exohuman@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
I’m neurodivergent and I would love a chip to help with that, but this company decided it’s leader is Musk and I don’t trust him. He used to be a hero in my eyes until the Twitter fiasco. Then I saw him for what he was.
- Saturdaycat ( @Saturdaycat@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
The future we don’t want
What, you’re not looking forward to get a corp chip implanted into your brain by the world’s most infamous shitposter?
- gk99 ( @gk99@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I played the first 10 minutes of Cyberpunk 2077’s corpo storyline, I’ll have to pass, thanks.
- LChitman ( @LChitman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Looking forward to Musk retweeting some smooth brained right winger with “hmm it’s worth thinking about” directly into my neocortex.
- Singletona ( @Singletona@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Then being forced to think about the firehose of shit he puts out.
- Osvaldoilustrador ( @Osvaldoilustrador@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
totally, dang…
- Clairvoidance ( @Clairvoidance@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
given Tesla’s trackrecord, paraplegics beware!
obviously other ways get less coverage because it’s not as excitingly scifi as propping metal in your brain, but I think I would rather a CTRL-Labs armwrist even if it is owned by Facebook
if you’re excited about this kind of stuff I would recommend reading more about OpenBCI, or y’know, anything that already has results within moving things with a thought.
I would sooner look to VR (as soon as we get commercial batteries that can keep up) to be the replacement ‘second brain’ for a computer if we’re talking about the idea he once talked about accessing the internet from anywhereIf Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still take several years, potentially more than a decade, for the start-up to secure commercial use clearance, experts earlier told Reuters. The company is also competing with other neurotech companies which have already implanted their devices in people.
like idk journalists should stop talking about Neuralink, all it does is risk stocks related to Musk go up, though this one is soberingly skeptical.
- tomve_cz ( @tomve_cz@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
He said a lot of things … He’s like Trump - full mouth of words but reality is always another thing
- earthling ( @earthling@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Full self driving just around the corner.
- Singletona ( @Singletona@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I’ve been hearing that one for thirty years.
- freebrick ( @freebrick@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
I’d rather live in a cave for the rest of my life than let CrazyElon brain chip me.
- quantum_mechanic ( @quantum_mechanic@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
Good, he can test it on his adoring fans. Lord knows they need lobotomies.
- tegs_terry ( @tegs_terry@feddit.uk ) 2•1 year ago
And after they’ve bitten off all their fingers like those chimps I won’t have to read any dick-suck sycophantic comments online any more.
- SpaceCadet2000 ( @SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
Brain chips? What was wrong with potatoes?
- unabatedshagie ( @unabatedshagie@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
I wouldn’t trust Musk if he told me that water makes things wet.
He’s a snake oil salesman.