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As long as the tech or the software doesn't become obsolete, or the company doesn't go bankrupt.

You know about the blind people that were able to see for a while but the company making their implants went bankrupt, leaving them blind once more, as their their implants will eventually all stop working?

Yet in 2020, Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt. While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case. “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

It's obviously understandable to want to try something, anything, to help with a disability, but relying on private for profit companies for experimental medical devices is far from ideal.

Addendum: Also, disabled people are unfortunately often used as an excuse to push agendas. "We can't have a bike lane there! Think about handicapped people using their car!" Or like "Tesla's FSD will help disabled people get around No need to fund dirty dangerous public transit!! " Or again "Neuralink is going to help disabled people so they must have good intentions and obviously not plan on selling these to the general public eventuality. It's purely for the embiggening of society!"

FSD is soooo full self driving that blind people can't use it as it requires constant babysitting, and more importantly, a driver's license and thr ability to drive a car... for a car that's supposed to drive itself.

Anything coming from Musk is obviously a scam. He's a con artist. He will say anything to convince people. He keeps promising his shit is always just on the verge of revolution but it's mainly just empty words for hype.

Helping the disabled is probably just an afterthought for Neuralink. People are so desperate, they will try anything, and Neuralink will be the creep profiting off them.