The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died | Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their de...

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• ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is like discovering water is wet, the man is a awful in every conceivable way.

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  • metallic_substance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think he 100% believes that he’s just a humble genius trying to change the world. As he receives more and more criticism though, he’s going to use his tremendous power and wealth to lash out because he’s a fragile child. It’s already begun. He will hurt the world with his billions.

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• chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had to stop reading. I don’t like progress if this is the cost. I’ll just continue to type out my critical comments with my fingers…

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  • Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’ll show 'em! Give them hell!

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    • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What am I going to show the blind? I can’t even get them to listen…

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He denied that any of the deaths were “a result of a Neuralink implant”

  Disturbing content ahead, stop there and don’t get too far in the article if you mind that. I know it gave me discomfort.

  One of them scratched its head until it dug out a connector and yanked it out. You know, natural cause of death.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess that’s why he’s trying to get paraplegics to volunteer for the human trials.

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• porkins@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get why they do monkey trials, but the part where it said that the one dieing monkey was holding it’s cellmates hands really gets to me. There needs to be a better way.

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  • neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the key part here is how every step of the way they just ignored the textbook on how to do this ethically.

    For starters the implant caused bleeding in the female monkey, that should have been caught way earlier by the staff, and the experiment consequently aborted. If you go a step further and extrapolate here you can start to suspect that they didn’t even do the basics and likely skipped non animal testing on the compatibility of the implant with brain matter.

    This reads as if they used animal testing in place of simulated prototyping which is absolutely not how this is supposed to be done. Animal testing is that last step when you’re 98% there already, not if you’re just finished with the prototype.

    We can grow cells in the lab, so what they should have done is test this implant on artificially grown brain matter in the lab, that would have shown them that the implant harm the attached brain without actually harming any living animal.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah. There are right and wrong ways to do this sort of testing. Taking shortcuts like this so you can “move fast and break things” is categorically the wrong approach in this context, and is unethical and immoral to boot.

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• hi_its_me@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “This May, the FDA gave the company approval for human trials.”

  Wow! That’s scary

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Monstrous. I know he’s a narcissistic sociopath but how do the lab techs, researchers, and veterinarians that worked on this sleep at night?

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The psychopath probably enjoyed watching the monkeys suffer. I’m surprised he didn’t make a “funny” tweet about it.

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  • itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    An article published detailed what it was like working with Elon Musk at Tesla. Apparently, he rarely, if ever, has any idea what’s going on in his own companies.

    Basically, the dude just says things. He has no idea how most of his products or software work or anything. He just says things.

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    • And009@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds like someone orange

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That certainly explains the ludicrous cybertruck demo.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He doesn’t have to know how the monkeys suffer to watch the monkeys suffer and it’s just the sort of “entertainment” I would expect someone like him would enjoy. I have no evidence that he is, it just wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find it out. He’s a sick, sick man.

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• Voyager@psychedelia.ink ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unpaywall:
  archive.ph/9TPpC

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Every word uttered by a conservative is either deception or manipulation. Every word. Why would anyone ever believe anything Elon says?

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• Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How could I have possibly run out of articles if I never read your articles Wired… lol

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• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sooo… they skipped a lot of stages and just went to torturing disposable monkeys. I can’t imagine any serious ethical review of the project finding that they did anything in line with requirements.

  Like animal testing or not, there are undeniably ways in which it should and should not be performed if it is going to happen.

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