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antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Are you suggesting that the FDA gave Neuralink special treatment in the approval process? Or are you suggesting that the government should specifically shut down anything Musk tries to do, like SpaceX?

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retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That or Musk’s org lied, misrepresented their progress or found loop holes in the regulation process, yes.

It’s pretty obvious from its immediate failure that it was not ready.

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- antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t think it’s obvious at all. This is a sample size of one, and it is still working after 3 months.
  
  Globally, a staggering 310 million major surgeries are performed each year; around 40 to 50 million in USA and 20 million in Europe. It is estimated that 1–4% of these patients will die, up to 15% will have serious postoperative morbidity, and 5–15% will be readmitted within 30 days. An annual global mortality of around 8 million patients places major surgery comparable with the leading causes of death from cardiovascular disease and stroke, cancer and injury. If surgical complications were classified as a pandemic, like HIV/AIDS or coronavirus (COVID-19), developed countries would work together and devise an immediate action plan and allocate resources to address it.
  
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388795/
  
  Implants are rejected by the immune system. Stents fail. Hip and joint replacements fail. Does that mean we shouldn’t do them?
  
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