Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says
Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says
Elon Musk's experimental brain tech startup will continue implanting people with its hardware.
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WHAT THE FUCK
I mean it's not your brain dude, why do you care?
Because it will encroach into everything if we let it be.
There's always a dumdum like you saying "it doesn't affect you, so why do you care?".
Because the company implanting the chip killed a good amount of monkeys for their tests. They're an unethical company.
Because Elon Musk is a fucking piece of shit and he is clearly disregarding the laws if it makes him money.
Because private, for-profit companies cannot be trusted to not fuck over everyone if it makes them a cent more.
And that's why all those paralyzed people should just sit in their chairs and wait for eventual death, I guess.
Seriously, just don't get one if you think they're so awful.
The issue is not the tech, it's how it is developed and tested, and the terrible track record of the mega corpos.
Just like AI, the tech itself is great, but corpos turn it into a pile of shit for the money.
It won't be different this time around with daddy Musk.
Yeah, things would be going so much better if garage hobbyists were developing these brain implants instead.
Yeah because it's either a socipath billionaire or a dusty garage hobbyist. Nothing in between.
At the very least, the garage hobbyist has more chance to be a more ethical person.
One of the common arguments I hear against technological advancement is "but what if some sociopath brews up a pandemic virus in their garage!"
The FDA is monitoring the corporations that are working on this sort of thing. As is mentioned in the title of this thread.
You know what else killed a good amount of monkeys for their tests? Pretty much every single Class 3 medical device out there. Neuralink didn't do anything far outside the ordinary with their tests, they just got a lot of media attention because "Elon bad".
Medical device testing goes through animal trials before human ones. Those trials use monkeys. Those monkeys often die. The only unusual thing about Neuralink's tests is a lot of people pretending like they suddenly give a shit.
Here's an idea, maybe stop killing animal for medical testing?
Other companies doing the same shit isn't any better. But with Neuralink, they said that no monkey were killed during their trials, which is false. So it makes it even worst.
Because it kills everything you put it in? I don't know how to tell you that you're supposed to care about other people.
Apart from the only other human it’s been put in, who from all reporting has had no ill side effects.
You haven't been keeping up with the news have you? The chip malfunctioned, and Elon knew it was going to.
This is extremely old news. The dude is alive, and has regained much of the functionality he lost in the chip with a firmware update.
Put your rage boner away.
Motherfucker, say that again. Slower this time. I want you to imagine suddenly losing motor functions during a random part of your day. Imagine all of the possible situations that can happen in. In traffic, at the train station, in a crowded city, whatever. The chip should of been finished before being implanted in some poor guys brain. It shouldn't be receiving firmware updates at all.
… First off, the guy was a paraplegic before the implant. This isn’t a sudden or new thing to happen.
Secondly, you’re literally asking for a final version of something without any sort of human testing involved. Can you name a single medical device, ever, which has had exactly 1 version, no updates, and went through 0 human trials before completion?
This guy was never going to be out and about on his daily walk through the middle of the street using his v0.001 neuralink implant. And if you honestly thought that was ever on the table, you have absolutely no idea what is going on.
Again, put the hate boner away.
Secondly, you’re literally asking for a final version of something without any sort of human testing involved. Can you name a single medical device, ever, which has had exactly 1 version, no updates, and went through 0 human trials before completion?
That's what the animal trials were supposed to be for. You know what happened to them? They died. They didn't even wait for the chip to be successful in apes before putting it in a human. If you don't understand why that's fucked up, I can't help you.
Didn’t take long for that goalpost to move, did it.
Put.
Your hate boner.
Away.
Your ignorance of the subject is insane. You don't even have the first clue as to who is involved in the tests or what it's meant to accomplish.