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Before anyone gets too excited: some of their electrodes are no longer able to record a signal from the patient's brain. They're reprogramming their software to work with fewer electrodes. No one is being turned into a borg drone.
A software patch for a hardware failure.
Sounds like what they do at Tesla, too.
Well it's also what NASA is doing. Only logical if you don't want to dig it out again.
Do you mean with the Voyager FDS? There's a big difference between patching a system 30+ years past it's planned mission date because at everyone's amazement it just keeps going and being valuable versus the Neuralink developing issues a few months after being installed when many expected it to fail because of the news of high failure rate among the primate test subjects beforehand.
Well, rocket science is not brain surgery
That is still a pretty serious issue. It’s not something you should downplay
I was thinking more a vegetable than a borg drone.
Yet.
You, too, will be assimilated.
I don't know. Even if the outcome is just that the implant just stop working, with no other issue, it's looking pretty bad to me.
Since it required literal brain surgery just to be installed, which I assume is already a serious risk, it's not something you want to potentially be useless.
The implant is already malfunctioning after a few months. Makes you wonder how many more of these threads will retract over the next following months.
All of them. The body doesn't want foreign materials inside it at any point. You can't just jam wires into your body and expect your immune system to not attack it. The organ interface problem as far as I know has never been solved.
We jam stuff into our body for all sorts of medical things.
Some require rejection meds for life. Others don't.
Especially in less than 4 to 5 months. Damn thing was put in back in January and is already failing.
Damn. I finally thought this would be the year :(
Yeah nobody is worried about this.