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If the IEEE (electrical engineering society) is saying something it must be really bad. They rarely if ever get involved in things like this.
Neuralink announced in September that it was recruiting volunteers for its human study. Thousands of people have reportedly signed up to receive the brain implant.
Welp…
Darwinism in action I guess...
Why do they want it? What does it actually do?
Kills you painfully with a brain infection, I think. I don’t really see the appeal.
Neuralink's device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.
The company hopes that a person would potentially be able to control a mouse, keyboard or other computer functions like text messaging with their thoughts.
"First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs," Musk said in April 2021
https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-elon-musks-brain-chip-company-neuralink-do-2022-12-05/
Neuralink’s device has a chip that processes and transmits neural signals that could be transmitted to devices like a computer or a phone.
Haven't we already been able to do that with non-invasive EKG sensors strapped to the temples before?
yeah, but do you want to have a small ekg device around your head, when daddy elon could be linked up directly to your brain?
There's consumer level transcranial magnetic stimulation kits you can get.
So are these thousands of people disabled? Because that would be the silver lining. I dont think the trials will go well, but I mean thats how desperate these people are. And at least the tech is being worked in some form. But the siccest shit comes out of the worst assholes.
I'd imagine most of the people signing up haven't actually looked into it and are envisioning Matrix shit or something. Like the thousands of people who signed up for Mars One
Matrix shit? Like being forced to be a drone in a monotonous VR world while their bodies are harvested for energy until they fail? Doesn't really seem like an aspirational situation but I guess there must be a few Cyphers out there ..
I meant like downloading kung fu knowledge to your brain
If they're thinking at all... it's likely less drone, more "leather trench coat, sleek sunglasses, uzis, katanas, and bullet time"
Idk... Seems pretty good if it means I can live in the 90's again.
No. This kind of thing is being worked on by legitimate academic neuroscientists at places like Stanford. They abide by a code of medical and scientific ethics. That’s where this kind of thing is going to come from.
They’re not going to come from some guy who killed a $44B company by making the stupidest move possible at every decision branch.
It probably could do those things, but instead it'll harvest your thoughts to send advertising keywords to Twitter, and play unskippable ads directly inside of your brain.
I've always wanted to give corporations access to my thoughts
Don't forget to pay your monthly subscription, or you'll wake up and discover they've turned off your visual cortex rendering you blind until you bring your payment account up to date, plus pay a $47 late fee.
Oh, they’re going to get so sued if they actually do this. I’m picturing the window-shatter demo of the cybertruck, but with brains.
I'm picturing the chip overload from Kingsman.
They’ll die or beg to die just like all of those monkeys
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
How about you step up and be patient zero Mr phony stark wannabe
I wonder how many of those bag lickers that volunteered refused to get the Covid vaccine.
But the covid vaccine implanted microchips into people... oh....
If only there was a government agency with both the will and the authority to do something. Oh well.
pls put a monkey killing chip in my brain daddy elon
The only way this should be allowed to move forward is if the board of directors all have the procedure done first.
Yooo, real life cyberpsychosis just dropped
You ready to get a montage reel of people pulling their brains out while screaming, straight from a scifi horror movie?
Can I have two of those?
Yikes, that would make you a scalper in more ways than one.