• Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      38·
      9 months ago

      Musk and his board at Neuralink should be first test subjects. But we know that’ll never happen. Thousands of people will receive brain damage as they submit for trials hoping to have horrible conditions lessened.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      16·
      9 months ago

      The first person to receive the neuralink is a paralyzed individual with no quality of life. This may help them communicate with their loved ones.

      I don’t get why people don’t see that this is a medical device.

      • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
        46·
        9 months ago

        People do understand this is a medical device. What you seem to not be getting in this situation is that Elon Musk is an absolutely horrible human who has a long track record of badness. There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic that this project will end badly for people who aren’t him.

        Awhile back it was discovered that Tesla had quietly programmed Autopilot to disengage if it detected a crash was eminent. Why? Because they were asked to report how many crashes occurred while autopilot was active. Their solution was to game the system rather than actively try to solve any potential problems and be honest / critical of what they had built. This is a system that already has the potential to get people killed. Do you suppose that sort of unscrupulous decision making is going to stop when his people are implanting devices in human brains?

      • Jomega@lemmy.world
        23·
        9 months ago

        Medical devices aren’t supposed to kill their users, which is what happened in the animal testing phase. It didn’t even have a single successful case of doing what it’s supposed to.

        • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          9 months ago

          Jesus, it didn’t? I already know I never want this horrible thing and I know all those monkeys died so I don’t read about it in depth, but they never even got the thing to work? Somebody needs to stop him.

          • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            9 months ago

            It did work in terms of output, I’m pretty sure. It’s just that all the monkeys (and pigs) died due to complications, and some had gruesome deaths

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        9 months ago

        We get what it is. We just don’t remotely trust the self-serving conman behind it.

        What you’re saying here is “The first victim is an incredibly vulnerable person who deserves so much better than being offered false hope by a manipulative bastard with a God complex.”

        Picking suffering people to prey on only makes him more of a bastard.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        2·
        9 months ago

        You ask them what they think of Musk after being so close to him for a couple of days

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    51·
    9 months ago

    With my new NeuraLink™, I feel an odd compulsion to buy a Cybertruck™ with my entire life savings.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      9 months ago

      I am a proud dogecoin user since 2012.

      Elon and his punp n dump schemes can go fuck himself, he practically tried to destroy it with inflation.

  • Yewb@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    Zero percent chance elon will do this to himself, it should tell you all you need to know.

    • tourist@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      9 months ago

      Are you saying someone else will have to do it?

      I’ll need a bonesaw and some ketamine

      also maybe some stuff for the surgery

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    9 months ago

    i mean the fact that their website hasn’t been updated since september should give you a feeling of doubt about the veracity of elon’s claim