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Doctors Concerned About Neuralink's First Patient (futurism.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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• Concerns rise as Neuralink fails to provide evidence of brain implant success, raising safety and transparency questions.

• Controversy surrounds Neuralink's lack of data on surgical capabilities and alarming treatment of monkeys with brain implants.

• While Neuralink touts achievements, experts question true innovation and highlight developments in other brain implant projects.

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 8 months ago (19 children)

Plus, he likes to pretend he's an expert on the industries of the companies he runs. That's already potentially dangerous with Tesla and Space X, but in this case his hubris is very directly dangerous to the people receiving his services.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)

Teslas are already directly dangerous to his customers but our society is numb to traffic violence so people don’t care as much as they should. But “full self-driving” has already killed people.

Edit: removed “a lot” because while I suspect it is true, it remains unproven.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But ~~“full self-driving”~~ false advertising has already killed a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sure, that’s what I was referring to. But I’m realizing not everyone is as aware of the whole story here.

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