TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world ummthatguy @lemmy.world 2 mo. ago

Has Musk-rat started a nanotech company yet?

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The 29-year-old complete quadriplegic shared that he had lost sensation and suffered paralysis from below the shoulders after sustaining a spinal injury during a diving accident eight years ago

Arbaugh also revealed that the implant had given him the freedom to pull an all-nighter playing the strategy game Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 - something that he could not have done on his own before the surgery.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/first-human-patient-to-receive-a-neuralink-brain-implant-used-it-to-stay-up-all-night-playing-civilization-6/ar-BB1kDmCI

This is the kind of use case for neuralink that I'm okay with.
- I'm glad they're having success, but this is not a use case for neuralink. It's a use case for brain-computer interfaces in general. Research in BCIs is ongoing and a very relevant topic of research, but usually research institutes can't indiscriminately kill monkeys for this. I am very excited about this tech (my PhD is tangentially related to it) but wish it was being developed by literally any research institute not owned by Musk
  
  I'm also pretty sure you can do this without implants...
- Certainly, but the tech itself throws up some flags for potential abuse.
  
  Agreed. Plus the animal testing is bad.
  
  I'm hopeful that the tech won't be abused because it's life changing for those that need it.
I’m happy for this guy that it seems to be helping him. But I cannot stress how much I DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY at all. I would be 0% surprised if we find out five years from now they killed 10 other patients and this is the only story they chose to share. I don’t believe they have any integrity and the little bit that has leaked out about their “research” practices has been horrific.

This is being reported like it is scientific communication about the research. But this is the spin machine of a for-profit company.
I'm glad Neuralink has developed such essential technology. I can't think of a better use of a brain implant than not sleeping and playing Civilization.
- Huh.
- I can't criticize it because I use essential technology to do the same thing.
  
  Did it require surgery at a cost of millions of dollars?
- I can't think of a better use of a brain implant than not sleeping and playing Civilization.
  
  I can come up with a few:
  
  Showing advertisement while the recipient is sleeping. Use a positive feedback loop in order to increase engagement.
  
  Using it to fly bomb carrying drones
  
  Create jobs that have only one requirement - having such an implant.
  
  Charge $8 a month for Neuralink Plus to enable long-term memories?
- He's paralyzed from the neck down and can now use a computer like a regular person. Not sure what there is to be sarcastic about.
  
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I’d use the neuralink to stay up all night figuring out how to prove Tuvok wrong and make casual condescending remarks to him about my intellectually superior understanding of things.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
- Well done.

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