• Mike D.
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    If the IEEE (electrical engineering society) is saying something it must be really bad. They rarely if ever get involved in things like this.

  • capital
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    Neuralink announced in September that it was recruiting volunteers for its human study. Thousands of people have reportedly signed up to receive the brain implant.

    Welp…

      • @mriguy
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        Kills you painfully with a brain infection, I think. I don’t really see the appeal.

      • @glimse
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        Neuralink’s device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.

        The company hopes that a person would potentially be able to control a mouse, keyboard or other computer functions like text messaging with their thoughts.

        “First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs,” Musk said in April 2021

        https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-elon-musks-brain-chip-company-neuralink-do-2022-12-05/

        • @[email protected]
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          Neuralink’s device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.

          Haven’t we already been able to do that with non-invasive EKG sensors strapped to the temples before?

        • @Sanctus
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          So are these thousands of people disabled? Because that would be the silver lining. I dont think the trials will go well, but I mean thats how desperate these people are. And at least the tech is being worked in some form. But the siccest shit comes out of the worst assholes.

          • @glimse
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            I’d imagine most of the people signing up haven’t actually looked into it and are envisioning Matrix shit or something. Like the thousands of people who signed up for Mars One

            • @[email protected]
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              510 months ago

              Matrix shit? Like being forced to be a drone in a monotonous VR world while their bodies are harvested for energy until they fail? Doesn’t really seem like an aspirational situation but I guess there must be a few Cyphers out there …

              • @glimse
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                210 months ago

                I meant like downloading kung fu knowledge to your brain

              • @[email protected]
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                If they’re thinking at all… it’s likely less drone, more “leather trench coat, sleek sunglasses, uzis, katanas, and bullet time”

          • @PrinceWith999Enemies
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            1510 months ago

            No. This kind of thing is being worked on by legitimate academic neuroscientists at places like Stanford. They abide by a code of medical and scientific ethics. That’s where this kind of thing is going to come from.

            They’re not going to come from some guy who killed a $44B company by making the stupidest move possible at every decision branch.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          It probably could do those things, but instead it’ll harvest your thoughts to send advertising keywords to Twitter, and play unskippable ads directly inside of your brain.

          • @glimse
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            I’ve always wanted to give corporations access to my thoughts

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              Don’t forget to pay your monthly subscription, or you’ll wake up and discover they’ve turned off your visual cortex rendering you blind until you bring your payment account up to date, plus pay a $47 late fee.

    • @PrinceWith999Enemies
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      Oh, they’re going to get so sued if they actually do this. I’m picturing the window-shatter demo of the cybertruck, but with brains.

      • @ArcaneGadget
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        510 months ago

        I’m picturing the chip overload from Kingsman.

    • @bi_tux
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      310 months ago

      But the covid vaccine implanted microchips into people… oh…

  • magnetosphere
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    3210 months ago

    If only there was a government agency with both the will and the authority to do something. Oh well.

  • katy ✨
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    pls put a monkey killing chip in my brain daddy elon

  • @IzzyScissor
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    910 months ago

    The only way this should be allowed to move forward is if the board of directors all have the procedure done first.

  • @[email protected]
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    410 months ago

    You ready to get a montage reel of people pulling their brains out while screaming, straight from a scifi horror movie?

    • Ook the Librarian
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      1210 months ago

      Yikes, that would make you a scalper in more ways than one.

      • GarlandKey
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        When 7 billion people know when you are, the chances of pleasing everyone is close to absolute zero. He has character flaws. So do I. So do you. He also runs very important future forward companies. He helped curate collections of the best talent in the world to create great tech.

        • Ready! Player 31
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          2110 months ago

          He is very good at the following things:

          • being born rich
          • investing in a slam dunk future technology everyone on the planet knows we will need, eg money on the internet, electric cars, space ships
          • taking risks in combining the above

          That is about as far as his skillset runs. As we’ve seen from twitter, when he doesn’t have an entire layer of his organisation set up to run interference in him, he quickly runs companies into the ground. He has had zero original ideas.

          He’s also a dangerous alt-right racist nutjob.

        • MolochAlter
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          1510 months ago

          So, this is what passes for nuance these days?

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes. He’s smart enough to mostly back the right R&D horses, and good at generating hype. That way, he almost manages to offset the damage he does when his ego gets in the way or he thinks he’s qualified to make engineering decisions or to know which corners to cut.