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This is going to be the justification when trying it on people as well.

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we should echo this ironically as we cram one into his brain in a distinctly non-surgical manner

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Neuralink advanced medical instillation technique

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2 points

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People with locked in syndrome have occasionally been given early BCIs on this justification, but generally they’re already consenting (IIRC the first real recipient of one had to have it taken back out at the end due to ethics requirements, despite wanting to keep it.)

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34 points

If a Simpson’s writer gave this line to Mr. Burns, it would be too psychopathic.

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I wonder what Elon really means by terminal. How elastic is the term? The monkeys were old? Or some of the monkeys were old? Or some of the monkeys might have been old? Or all the monkeys were adult monkeys so “terminal” means “not juvenile”.

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25 points

His team went dumpster diving behind a cosmetics research lab and got all the still-good monkeys out of the trash.

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Meanwhile the cosmetic company: We gave monkeys with stable health signals to Neuralink so we are free of their death, too.

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He meant airport terminal, checkmate tankies

Edit: Just wanted to point out he said terminal “moneys”

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21 points

This has big “Heather Heyer actually died as a result of a heart attack!!” energy

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Right. Sure.

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