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You have no idea what the long term effects of the rejection are going to be, and neither does the corporation doing this to human beings after killing a bunch of monkeys and still failing.
You do not know if he is going to be ok either. Right now its been positive doesn't look all that bad. This is a guy who was able to do things he normally would be unable to do.
I think Lemmy just seems to hate Elon Musk and they can't stand that something positive may of come from this. You can't know what the future holds but if there first subject died it would look very bad for the company and would likely get some serious attention from the government regulators.
He still can for the time being. They worked around the problem.
What's the alternative? We either don't create this technology at all or we do and accept the fact that it's going to involve a lot of trial and error. You don't just skip all that and jump to the final product. There's only so much you can test on animals which exactly isn't the most ethical thing to begin with anyway. At some point you're going to need to stick it in a human brain.
The first heart transplant recepient died after 18 days. Should we have not done that either?
That's just untrue. There are a lot of options between "give up" and "proceed irresponsibly". After all the animals they've scrapped why are the human subjects having the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS that were identified in the animals. This is Musk's typical "fail fast" strategy to advance research faster, but in the medical field the failures damage real humans.
Completely irresponsible!
The FDA regulatory failure with neuralink is as bad as the FAA's failure with Boeing.