I hope he experiments on him self and it goes horribly wrong

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Ha, You don’t think that’s already happened?

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Nah, I think his brain damage is from all the K he’s zooted out on

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Elon isn’t even brave enough to go up in one of his own rockets.

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At the same time, I feel like we shouldn’t let that happen because imagine if he actually succeeds? And then we just have immortal crackhead Lex Luthor with a hallucinating ChatGPT whispering further delusions directly into his brain. That can’t be good for any of us.

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Brain chips from the people who “move fast and break things”. This can only end well.

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If anyone is dumb enough to put anything from that dude into their head, that brain was already damaged!

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If definitely seems dystopian, but hopefully this ends up helping some people who are quadriplegic.

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There’s a shit ton of people I’d trust more with this work than Elon

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Absolutely. However through his maniacal adventures he may find where this technology should NOT go to progress.

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Hopefully the people elon’s persuading to do this work are better aligned.

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Except it doesn’t.

Don’t overlook the ‘Fi’ in ‘SciFi.’

Aspects of tech are often correctly predicted in SciFi going all the way back to Lucian writing about a ship of men flying up to the moon in the 2nd century.

But surrounding what they often get right the authors always get things wrong too. For example, contrary to Lucian’s ideas, in reality the ship of men that flew up to the moon didn’t find a race of human like aliens that were only men who could carry children and had a bunch of gay sex with the men of Apollo-11.

TL;DR: Correctly predicting a technology in a story doesn’t mean correctly predicting the social impact and context for that technology.

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Why do you think we never went back?

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It will for sure.

In the short term.

The problem is the implants can and very likely will cause very serious complications in the long term.

My SO is a neurologist who visibly cringes wherever I mention brain implants as we discuss emerging tech (my wheelhouse).

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Your brain would have to be damaged already to agree to this.

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Maybe we should find prison volunteers. Get us some Lawnmower Man shit

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