After what happened to all those monkeys I still can’t believe he got permission to move to human trials. You’d have to be stupid or insane to volunteer for this.
Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery
Submitted 1 year ago by jockyrickyrock@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
He just have the entire army to experiment with haha
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He has lots of people obsessed with him who do believe anything he says.
Tandybaum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This really might be the one that gets him. It’s one thing when self driving doesn’t quite work right or when that tunnel project gets abandoned. If they install these things and people get seriously hurt (I know cars can hurt people) it’s going to be a shit storm.
jockyrickyrock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
defintily musk is not gonna be prepared for this one
bus_go_fast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s probably snorting coke right now anyways.
s1nistr4@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Virgin Bill Gates: “The covid vaccine doesn’t contain any microchips…I-I promise!”
Chad Elon Musk: “I will literally microchip your brain”
Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
He doesn’t care. His followers will defend him and tell you that he is god send and he is the smartest guy of mankind.
Tandybaum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel like this isn’t a fanboy situation. If he actually goes through will this and people get fucked up the hammer will fall hard and fast.
Zellith@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
UC Davis veterinary records cited by the Physicians Committee—which WIRED also obtained through a subsequent California public records request—chronicle a battery of complications that developed following procedures involving electrodes being surgically implanted into monkeys’ brains. The complications include bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema, a condition colloquially known as “brain swelling.”
Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.
Yeah. I think I'll pass.
noride@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That last line man. Wow.
Poor girl was in serious distress.
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I think whomever it was at the FDA that approved this shit for human trials needs to be investigated. It reeks of corruption.
58008@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rather appropriately, allowing Elon Musk’s crew to operate on your brain is proof that you do indeed need brain surgery.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m never getting one. If it ever gets to the point where I have to get a brain implant as a condition for a job, and all the jobs are like that then I guess I’ll just be homeless.
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
My brain runs arch btw
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
As if it wouldn’t be super illegal to hack it and remove the tracking software. AKA Windows 11 BE (Brain Edition).
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 1 year ago
Mark of the beast aside, alterations to the mind like this are insulting God in Christianity and Islam.
I’m not getting this or any other chips.
The real problem will be when employees simply can’t be competitive without it and not having it will relegate them to jobs for severely disabled people.
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are glasses an affront to your god? What about braces? Cochlear implants? How about ventilators? Synthetic insulin? Should I keep going or did you get the point?
Fuck Elon Musk and the inevitable shit show that’s going to happen during the human trials, but it’s got nothing to do with any god.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No. Just no. The problem isn’t anything having to do with religion. Governments and companies already abuse the fuck out of smartphone “privacy” as it is. No way in hell I’m giving these authoritarian bastards a direct link to my brain.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
There are few companies products I want in my body less than from anything that Musk is involved in.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
he should test it on himself
TheHolyChecksum@infosec.pub 1 year ago
So Elon is the first one to get one, right? What do you mean, he doesn’t want one?
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I can’t wait to get X advertising streamed directly into my dreams.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
But I use Wayland.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 1 year ago
NICE
but still: etc/gdm3/custom.conf WaylandEnable=false
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 year ago
Har har har! Whew. That one's a lil rough :P
Hyggyldy@sffa.community 1 year ago
I’m sure there’s tons of Muskrat fans who’d love one but unfortunately don’t have brains.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah bruh fuck everything about this.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What do you mean? You see no potential for anything good coming from this at all? I certainly see some things to fuck about this (including the asshole payroll ING the project) but not “Everything”
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I discount quite heavily any knowledge that may come of this because musk is a goddamn egomaniacal child. I take all of his shit with a heaping dose of skepticism. Put a serious thinker in charge and I’d have a different opinion.
BURN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see a select few medical devices benefiting from this, which they would have eventually gotten to anyways without musk and his extremely poor research methods.
I’m never getting anything like this. Doubly so if it’s developed by big tech. The possible benefits don’t even get close to outweighing the negatives
thorbot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let’s test it on the Elongate Muskrat first
0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
Musk should be the first.
stefenauris@pawb.social 1 year ago
Can’t wait for them to start beaming ads directly into our brains
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
I already get Lighspeed briefs ads in my dreams.
Zellith@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah that happens in the 2009 movie Hardwired. That's not a future I want to be part of tbh.
lorez@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Let him be the first patient.
Centillionaire@kbin.social 1 year ago
Is it, though?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
No paywall: archive.is/yN8gL
That is a fascinating read, I had no idea how far multiple companies have already gotten on neural impulse translations and practical implementation.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Thanks, this Com is just awful about paywalls
jockyrickyrock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
use 12ft ladder to remove paywall
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I know there was a lot of ableist bigotry involved and it was problematic for even more reasons but…
Them mofos are paying for darwin awards.
RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like a great idea, and I’m sure it will work just as well as Tesla FSD. Cost a lot of money and get people killed.
simonced@lemmy.one 1 year ago
My pop-corn is readdy, any time now ^^
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The US FDA is a captured organization. This operation won’t even pass a research level ethics commitee.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is some of the coolest tech thats currently within our grasp. It will not only completely cure a lot of ailments but lead to fdvr.
Id burn alive a million monkeys if it lets some 5 year suddenly walk. Id burn double that if I can get some isekai catgirl harem going on.
We literally torture animals just to make sure makeup is safe, get mad about that. This is some serious sci fi shit that will open an insane amount of door, regardless of who is behind it. Pick you battles.
People that mindlessly hate on something just because Musk is involved are as brain dead as the ones that constantly praise him without thought.
BURN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re welcome to volunteer to be the first patient ahem experiment
And those practices of testing on animals are inhumane and are being phased out.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How else are we going to test brain to computer interfaces? All animal testing is inhuman but some of it is necessary to advance. Like I said, go complain about animal testing for vanity products instead of society altering tech. But you won’t, because you don’t give a fuck about the animals, you only care about the musk circle jerk.
Boogiepop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hope you’re an early adopter, given the level of resolve you have towards this.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hell no, but I won’t shame the ones that are either brave or desperate enough
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Uhhhhhhhhhh
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 year ago
Already got one installed? Zombie plague? Janeway drank all' your coffee this morning? Hmmmm 🤔
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The Poe references were a little ham-fisted at times, but I enjoyed the series quite a bit. It’s like Succession but horror.
Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I can’t believe we’re doing Brain Chips and not Robot Arms or Gundam smh what a dumb nerd
griD@feddit.de 1 year ago
I hope this is the beginning of The Fall of the House of
UsherMusk.brothershamus@kbin.social 1 year ago
Remember the billboards in space guy? How did that guy get shitcanned and this guy is here with this fucking thing?
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Who need implants if we have telephaty? Someone said fascist elite?
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone getting this shit will die just like every single fucking monkey test subject. If they don’t die, their suffering will be unbearable
wired.com/…/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-death…
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This is some Josef Mengele shit
technojamin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow, thank you for linking that article, I hadn’t read it yet. That’s absolutely horrible, and it doesn’t surprise me that Elon has orchestrated something so cruel in the name of progress.
Pher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the name of money*