Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st
EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 months agoAnd 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 4 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.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 months ago
My guess is you know nothing about this. They may think reinserting them is too risky for the patient because they don’t know. You’re almost certainly just making up facts to justify your conclusions, rather than assessing the facts and coming to a conclusion based on them.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They didn’t exactly say no, they just said they want more data. It might not be that crazy not to rush things with a patient that needs re-implantation when you’re trying to test the next revision of the implant and have willing patient who only requires an initial implantation.
As long as these patients are properly informed on the risks and limitations of this experimental tech, I don’t see a problem. There’s no evidence that they are treating their patients badly, or failing to fulfill any promises in regards to the efficacy of the implants, or commitment to support these early test implants insofar as they agreed to provide to their patients (to my understanding, they are informed that the implant could be a total failure with no opportunities to re-implant.).