The patient fully embraced the Elon propaganda and spouted his praises on the dozens of media interviews he agreed to.
No sympathy for someone who invited a leopard into their house to catch the mice
Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In an interview with the Journal, Neuralink’s first patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, opened up about the roller-coaster experience. “I was on such a high and then to be brought down that low. It was very, very hard,” Arbaugh said. “I cried.” He initially asked if Neuralink would perform another surgery to fix or replace the implant, but the company declined, telling him it wanted to wait for more information.
Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.
theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
tabular@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If such a person doesn’t deserve sympathy, who does?
gregorum@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Starving children in Gaza, who will never see their families again because they’re dead
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Is that where you draw the line on sympathy, or are you one of those people who is physically incapable of talking about anything but Israel/Palestine?
EatATaco@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You cherry-picked the first part of that paragraph. The end goes like this:
And then the next part of his statement is found in the following paragraph:
Of course, the goal here is not to have an honest assessment of what happened. . .but to simply choose what we want to further our hatred (justified, IMO) of Musk.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
None of that concerns Neuralink’s treatment of him—just his eventual acceptance of it.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 5 months ago
And nothing about what you quoted indicates what he was or was not told about the potential outcomes of the procedure, or how he was treated. Only that he was disappointed with the outcome. Of course he was, of course he wanted it to work out, so of course he was disappointed.
I stand by my point that only the negative part of his statement was cherry-picked out in order to justify shitting on Musk, rather than honestly assessing what happened.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My criticism of Neuralink’s response has nothing to do with whether or not the first patient was treated unfairly. It’s just this: they had a choice going forward of trying to fix the first patient’s implant or setting it aside and starting over with a fresh patient, and they chose the latter.