Who knew three phase 440 could do that, huh?
Another rich aberration with zero empathy and no connection with the rest of the human race - only himself. Seems to be a lot of that these days. Or at least the worst of them seem to keep getting the headlines.
Why would anyone want any of this fucking garbage anyway? Look at how the fuck boy runs twitter, you want that in your brain???
“Pay me or I turn you off, lol”
At least he’s honest and we can trust him. Oh wait…
Along with claiming that no monkeys have died because of a Neuralink implant, Musk has said the startup “chose terminal mon[k]eys (close to death already)” as test subjects to “minimize risk to healthy monkeys.” However, Wired cites an anonymous former employee saying that is not true:
Shown a copy of Musk’s remarks on X about Neuralink’s animal subjects being “close to death already,” a former Neuralink employee alleges to WIRED the claim is “ridiculous” if not a “straight fabrication.” “We had these monkeys for a year or so before any surgery was performed,” they say. The ex-employee, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, says up to a year’s worth of behavioral training was necessary for the program, a time frame that would exempt subjects already close to death’s door.
A brain implant could be a solution for people with brain damage or born deficits that help them regain lost abilities.
I would never have one implanted as a luxury gadget though.
I might get an implant from a responsible company
Musk is a lot of things, he is a liar scammer, an outright asshole, an incompetent idiot… but he’s never been responsible.
What’s a “responsible company”? Any public company could become irresponsible overnight if and when the shareholders demand it.
I don’t trust some billionaire with a direct interface into my neural abilities. I know Musk had no problems using his satilites to sabotage Ukraine’s army to appease Putin.
Not how a brain implant works.
If I could have direct interface to my devices (write text by thinking it, control video game characters,…) I would get one in a heartbeat.
Sadly it’ll be a while until the tech comes that far and it’ll have strictly medical usecases for quite some time.
Unless the alternative is severe disability I really don’t see the appeal of having untrustworthy tech bro billionaires physically infiltrate our brains just so we can “control video game characters” or “write text by thinking it”. I’d rather keep my brain to myself and write text and control video games by a mixture of thinking and wiggling my fingers.
If I could have direct interface with my devices…
All at the low low cost of never being able to separate yourself from the grid again.
Also, what happens when a solar flare hits and fucks your brain up?
“Surely father Musk will have every contingency in place, he is the real life Ironman after all.”
By the way, could I perhaps interest you in NFTs? They’re very valuable, I promise.
You are not connected to a grid, by having electrodes measure potential differences in your brain. If the chip (outside of your brain) were to malfunction, then the interface would simply no longer work. big deal. you replace it.
Again, wtf do you think a brain inplant is?
Anybody seriously considering letting one of Elon’s companies put things in your brain should probably read the story of him crawling under floorboards to unplug random servers because “Elon knows best”.
The man is a fucking cowboy.
This is actually hilarious, thanks for the link. Below is a snippet, and honestly it’s not even necessarily the best part, the whole thing is a wild read.
“These things do not look that hard to move,” Elon announced. It was a reality-distorting assertion, since each rack weighed about 2,500 pounds and was eight feet tall.
“You’ll have to hire a contractor to lift the floor panels,” Alex said. “They need to be lifted with suction cups.” Another set of contractors, he said, would then have to go underneath the floor panels and disconnect the electric cables and seismic rods.
Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved.
“no monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant,”
I bet that’s a bit like saying “Mr. Thorax didn’t kill Mrs Lender, the bullet did. We have it in custody right now.”
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Reading these comments after watching Guardians of the Galaxy 3 just hits different. Unless Elon himself is removed from his position, crimes like these simply won’t stop.