Man I deleted my account because I didn’t want Musk involved in my newsfeed. I can’t imagine giving that fool direct access to my brain.
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st
Submitted 5 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Juice64@lemmy.world 5 months ago
snownyte@kbin.social 5 months ago
I wonder what it was like for all of the fools that ever bought an Oculus headset and might've been force fed anything Mark projected on that thing.
Technus@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Neuralink, owned by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, believes it can prevent thread movement in the next patient by simply implanting the fine wires deeper into brain tissue. The company is planning on—and the FDA has reportedly signed off on—implanting the threads 8 millimeters into the brain of the second trial participant rather than the 3 mm to 5 mm depth used in Arbaugh’s implantation.
Yeah, “just shove it in deeper” sounds like a brilliant plan.
Maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t, but if I was that second patient I wouldn’t exactly be feeling super confident about their approach.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Imagine when they put ads directly into your brain.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
[deleted]residentmarchant@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The funny thing about this ad is that it’s already lodged deep in my brain and anytime someone has a headache I think about it
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 5 months ago
Or Musk decides that you don't need some part of your brain. Or worse, rents it out as server space.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
From Hyper-reality
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de 5 months ago
!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
A little glimps how it could be…
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Bro, just a few more disabled people sacrificed to the machine and I swear we’ll get it right! Move fast, break things! Technology always good!
Everyone like a week and a half ago pitching a fit over me saying that this is an unethical way to treat disabled people can go fuck themselves, lol.
snownyte@kbin.social 5 months ago
What a world we live in, huh?
We've got corporations who've successfully contaminated the world with their waste in a systematic fashion.
We've got corporations who've blindsided the political system.
We've got corporations who've blindsided affordable living.
We've got corporations who've given us a filtered and artificial companion in AI.
And now we've got a company that is actively seeking ways possible to ruin your way of being and living through chip implanting.
Enjoy the world, people.
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 5 months ago
What a myopic view of the world.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
First we had piles of monkeys, now piles of paralyzied people.
tourist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I really hope a good lawyer can find some kind of flaw in that liability waver
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 5 months ago
I’m not sure wtf they expected to happen when they aren’t addressing the core problem with neural interfaces. Fix scar tissue buildup around the electrodes or GTFO
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 5 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Only 15 percent of the electrode-bearing threads implanted in the brain of Neuralink’s first human brain-chip patient continue to work properly, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The adjustments were effective enough to regain and then exceed performance on at least one metric—the bits-per-second (BPS) rate used to measure how quickly and accurately a patient with an implant can control a computer cursor.
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.
The Journal’s report adds more detail about the thread retraction as Neuralink gears up to surgically implant its chip into a second trial participant.
According to the report, the company hopes to perform the second surgery sometime in June and has gained a green light to do so from the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees clinical trials.
Neuralink, owned by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, believes it can prevent thread movement in the next patient by simply implanting the fine wires deeper into brain tissue.
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.
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.
theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
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
tabular@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If such a person doesn’t deserve sympathy, who does?