The brain implant company Neuralink is pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.
    • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      For your comfort and convenience, this update deactivates the part of your brain that makes you think you dislike advertisements, among other bug fixes and improvements.

    • SuperDuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      then they’ll become subscriptions with ads

      The credit card on file has expired, please update your payment information within 72 hours or you will lose access to your brain function.

    • ackzsel@kbin.social
      3·
      8 months ago

      The function of an ad is to manipulate your behavior. If an implant can do this directly ads aren’t needed anymore.

  • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    736·
    8 months ago

    Downvote Musk spam.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

    • Gamoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      Just try be clear, you’re saying this article that suggests Elon musk will literally physically destroy people’s actual real brains in search of profit after similarly murdering hundreds of monkeys is promoting him?

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      38·
      8 months ago

      I’m all for promoting the shit out of this. The more idiots that kill themselves signing up, the better off we all are.

    • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      415·
      8 months ago

      Downvote Elon Musk spam spam.

      The billionaire doesn’t need a PR team to downplay his outright foolishness. Don’t be a useful idiot.

  • darq@kbin.social
    31·
    8 months ago

    If you are allowing a company that Elon Musk of all people is involved in to operate on your head, maybe the damage has already been done.

    I’m all for transhumanism, and I sincerely hope that the people who are hopeful for Neuralink to be therapeutic for their condition find some relief. But nobody should trust anything Elon Musk touches with their brain.

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    can literally only end in disaster, just like the monkeys that were tortured to death for Musk’s neuralink bullshit (he wants to rush to human testing btw)

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      I’m all for it. Let any idiot that wants to allow that asshole to put a chip in their head get it. They can all speedrun themselves out of society.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
      31·
      8 months ago

      I read it somewhere that these monkeys are bred for testing purpose just like chickens and cows are bred for human consumption but not sure how true it is.

      • McKee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        8 months ago

        Just as it still makes it not right for cows and chickens it makes it not right for monkeys. Or would you be OK if I was breeding humans for slavery purposes?

        • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
          26·
          8 months ago

          Woah! You didn’t get the point. Life must be really hard for ya. What did you understand after reading my comment ?

          • HerrBeter@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            8 months ago

            It still fails the ethics part, lab animals are purpose bred however it should be scrutinised by a board of ethics

  • Starkstruck@lemmy.world
    English
    22·
    8 months ago

    The biggest reason to never put anything like this in your brain is the idea that they could put ads in your brain.

    • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social
      11·
      8 months ago

      You hereby give Daddy Musk the right to:

      • power of attorney
      • collect sensitive information such as pin numbers and passwords
      • insert ads into your dreams and waking thoughts
      • monitor, influence, regulate, and terminate all subconscious and conscious thought as deemed necessary
      • stream your vision during sexy time
  • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    151·
    8 months ago

    Anyone that would let that idiot near their brains already killed themselves putting light inside the body.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    I notice Elon has never signed up to go up in one of his rockets. I wonder how quickly he’ll sign up to get one of his brain implants?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous.

    Former Neuralink employees as well as experts in the field alleged that the company pushed for an unnecessarily invasive, potentially dangerous approach to the implants that can damage the brain (and apparently has done so in animal test subjects) to advance Musk’s goal of merging with AI.

    The letter warned that “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity” and went on to ask: “Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?

    If the intravascular approach can restore key functioning to paralyzed patients, and also avoids some of the safety risks that come with crossing the blood-brain barrier, such as inflammation and scar tissue buildup in the brain, why opt for something more invasive than necessary?

    Which perhaps helps make sense of the company’s dual mission: to “create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.”

    Watanabe believes Neuralink prioritized maximizing bandwidth because that serves Musk’s goal of creating a generalized BCI that lets us merge with AI and develop all sorts of new capacities.

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