Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn’t be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.

“They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that’s why you should invest,” Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. “And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies.”

Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.

People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren’t Elon’s claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?

https://futurism.com/neoscope/terrible-things-monkeys-neuralink-implants

@technology #Elon #Neuralink #ElonMusk

  • @[email protected]
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    Let’s not pretend Musk has fucking clue what’s going on or the science behind it.

    He isn’t down in trenches making discoveries. That’s just the image he presents.

    He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.

    He’s been doing it since PayPal.

    He’s not a genius, he just has enough money to get actual geniuses to work for him.

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      Someone put it well, if insensitively, about Sam Bankman Fried (FTX etc):

      Not actually smart but just LARP-ing the “Aspy genius” persona.

      However accurate that take is or offensive, I think it captures something about how nerd culture has gone mainstream and how it’s perceived.

      • @_number8_
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        ‘nerd’ has disappeared as an insult now that we’re all on the computer all the time

        • @TheMauveAvenger
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          231 year ago

          As The Boys lovingly put it so many years ago, “nerds is cool now and jocks is pumping our gas.”

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            151 year ago

            I think that’s pretty romanticised.

            Assuming they leave their home town many end up in sales or similar making really good money.

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      211 year ago

      He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.

      Sometimes he actively interferes with those competent people too.

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        211 year ago

        It was formed by merging his company X with Confinity. All he did was profit off it but many people seem to think he created it.

        • JokeDeity
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          51 year ago

          LMFAO, I had no idea this wasn’t even the first time he called his dumb company X. He really is obsessed with that letter.