Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted

Musk is moving forward from killing monkeys to killing people.

Neuralink said in a blog post that it was looking for people who had paralysis in all four limbs because of a spinal-cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Hey business insider you really buried the lede there. The opening makes it seem like they’re just talking about bazinga brained morons

Could you imagine if it worked? And it was the human instrumentality project made up of bazinga-brained redditors? What a wondrous and grotesque being would be born. I cannot imagine a more fitting ending for this accursed species

Heard of nonfree software? How about nonfree people?

Is "Shivon Zilis" a normal name somewhere? I can't tell if my brain is rotting

Anyone else notice that the thumbnail looks exactly like

It’s so wild to me how an endeavor like this (if it even actually becomes a thing) is in the hands of the private industry instead of, idk, fucking brain surgeons

Great. I fully support them. I am glad for them. I can't wait to see what will happen (many bad and annoying techbros will die and the world will be better for it, and no one has to get their hands dirty because they did it to themselves, enthusiastically). I salute their contribution to science (I do not salute their contribution to science)

Based. The NFT era was terrible but was redeemed with the downfall era. I’m expecting good things from this, i.e. I hope they fail in the most grotesque way