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Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.

"They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that's why you should invest," Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. "And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies."

Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.

People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren't Elon's claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?

https://futurism.com/neoscope/terrible-things-monkeys-neuralink-implants

@technology #Elon #Neuralink #ElonMusk

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Let's not pretend Musk has fucking clue what's going on or the science behind it.

He isn't down in trenches making discoveries. That's just the image he presents.

He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.

He's been doing it since PayPal.

He's not a genius, he just has enough money to get actual geniuses to work for him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

@Lmaydev @ajsadauskas
Peter Thiel sacked him as a PayPal boss?
He didn't "invent" Paypal.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It was formed by merging his company X with Confinity. All he did was profit off it but many people seem to think he created it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

To be clear, he did try to make them use his own work instead and it was awful so they pushed him out to protect the company.

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