Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says

• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Move mouse and click faster is a big deal when it’s the only way you can interact with the world.

  I feel like I’m doing nothing but repeating this: the only way to do that is not with an implant! It’s not implant or nothing!

  And it’s just a mouse right now, but what about robotic hands? A thought-controlled wheelchair? A tiny bit of agency? Technology is iterative and built on failure, and you want to tell the people trapped in non-functional bodies that it will never get any better?

  It is not those things, and I’m going to need you to step way the fuck back since your starting premise is that I’m not physically disabled and have no loved ones that are or could benefit from safe, effective adaptive technology. Maybe if it was your cousin or sister you’d have a little more concern about just tossing them into a meat grinder because some tech bro thinks “go fast, break things” is a policy that can and should be translated to human health.

  I do not and will not accept disabled people being sacrificed in the name of progress. They can’t even do this shit in fucking monkeys, bro. Come on.

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