Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial
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Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board

| Elon Musk | The Guardian

Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board

  • BadTakesHaver [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    If Elon really wants to look innovative smart and cool by advancing cybernetics why the fuck did he start with the part of the body that is crucial and will instantly kill you if something goes wrong? Why not just make like, cool futuristic robot arms that have electronics in them or something

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      the part of the body that is crucial and will instantly kill you

      I think you answered your own question. He wants to play god and messing with the brain is more fun for him. And if he kills somebody and their family sues him for $100m - what does he care? He can spend literally millions on legal fees to drag the case out for years and years to try to break them. He gets to play god again.

      If he wins - he’s on cloud nine. If it looks like he might lose - he can offer them a deal - the money with an NDA. Then he can have private detectives and tech bros follow them around for years and if they break the NDA - he’ll fuck with them by suing them.

      I just made myself throw up in my mouth.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      If Elon really wants to look innovative smart and cool by advancing cybernetics why the fuck did he start with the part of the body that is crucial and will instantly kill you if something goes wrong?

      Because he has zero patience for any of the practical steps of scientific progress and just wants the noise, spectacle, and above all else, the praise and worship of everyone possible.