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Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by vegeta to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's the alternative? We either don't create this technology at all or we do and accept the fact that it's going to involve a lot of trial and error. You don't just skip all that and jump to the final product. There's only so much you can test on animals which exactly isn't the most ethical thing to begin with anyway. At some point you're going to need to stick it in a human brain.

The first heart transplant recepient died after 18 days. Should we have not done that either?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

That's just untrue. There are a lot of options between "give up" and "proceed irresponsibly". After all the animals they've scrapped why are the human subjects having the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS that were identified in the animals. This is Musk's typical "fail fast" strategy to advance research faster, but in the medical field the failures damage real humans.

Completely irresponsible!

The FDA regulatory failure with neuralink is as bad as the FAA's failure with Boeing.