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Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wish the patient, scientists, and doctors success. I'm very concerned about the safety record for Neuralink, but I desperately hope they turned things around and that this patient responds well.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This tech has existed for decades, musk is just trying to shrink it.

I remember early 90s hearing about paralyzed patients who could control a mouse and keyboard through an implant.

It was mostly for bed ridden patients, so no one tri d to shrink it. Musk is billing this as a medical device, but the only reason to shrink it, is for people that dont need it.

He's predicting regular healthy people using it, so he's dumping crazy money into this. And there just isn't a big enough consumer base for it, even if it wasn't musk making it.

So even if it works, he ain't making money from it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the documentary ghost in the shell taught us anything, this that most everyone will have some level of cyberization in the future. Staying fully biological will be seen as a liability.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

"At last we have invented the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci fi novel, Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There’s a market for this if the tech is good enough and the side effects and reversibility are reasonable. I don’t think it’s particularly likely that Musk is the person to make it happen, but Doc Ock my shit up when it’s ready.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If the technology functions properly, patients with severe degenerative diseases like ALS could someday use the implant to communicate or access social media by moving cursors and typing with their minds.

“Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer,” Musk wrote. “That is the goal.”

This are the most depressing, appalling and stupid remarks that could come from someone developing this technology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Shrinking it would be very useful for people that have disabilities that don't leave them bedridden.

Hopefully they have other options than Muskshit. Anything he touches is unsafe