Dude can’t build cars that don’t fall apart when they get wet, and can’t build a truck that doesn’t fall apart for uh, existing, and we’re supposed to let him stick stuff in our brains?
No, thanks, but no.
Let’s not forget an important distinction here. This man is not making any of these things, and he isn’t capable of making them. But, he is capable of directly and indirectly impacting the people who are capable of making them negatively enough that we get utter failures like the cybertruck.
Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.
Also important:
This tech has been around for about 25 years already, first success was 1998…
Johnny received his implants in March 1998. During a 12-hour operation, Bakay inserted the electrodes, housed in two glass cones, into the area of Johnny’s cortex that controls left-hand movement. Once the cones were implanted, the doctors believed that axons – parts of the brain cell that transmit electrical impulses – would grow through them. When an impulse passed along an axon, it would be intercepted by tiny gold contacts and transmitted through the electrodes. ‘‘Axons are really like telephone lines,’’ Kennedy explains. ‘‘We’re just diverting the lines and eavesdropping on the call.’’
The hope was that by imagining he was moving his paralyzed left hand, Johnny would cause an increase in electrical impulses passing among the neurons there. These impulses could then be transmitted by the implanted electrodes to a receiver placed on Johnny’s pillow, and from there, the analog brain signals could be translated into digital commands that Johnny’s computer could understand. In theory, by controlling the frequency with which the neurons in his motor cortex fire, Johnny could move a cursor up or down, left or right on his screen.
Musk is just paying people to miniaturize existing tech and is using marketing to make people believe he’s personally inventing it
The bad part is his absolute disregard for basic lab safety and pretty much any other regulation.
It’s like how SpaceX doesn’t care how many rockets explode, Musk probably views early adaptors as sacrificial lambs.
the strategy of sacrifical ginney pigs is good for progress, bad for ethics.
Oh for sure: Musk can barely make a shitpost on Twitter, let alone actually do anything else.
But, conversely, he’s in a position to dictate culture and policy and direction and that’s led to shitty cars and whatever the fuck is going on at Twitter.
Aaaand yes, past performance is not a predictor for future outcomes, but uh, somehow I don’t think it’s irrelevant either.
Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.
Banks should have listened to this when he wanted a loan to buy twitter.
Why are you saying “No, thanks, but no” when you could be saying “FUCK NO! GET OUTTA HERE WITH THE GARBAGE!”
You can even add a jersy accient if you want to be extra fun in your telling elon to fuck off.
I’d prefer a more New Yorker ‘HEY! My brain is working fine over here!’, personally.
AY! I’M THINKIN’ 'ERE!!!
Or rocket launch pads that don’t break the rocket launching/get destroyed on launch
I ignored SpaceX because as far as things go, they’re pretty successful. Rockets blowing up and crashing during testing is pretty much just… a thing rockets do.
(And Shotwell is in charge far more than Spaceman Musk.)
It’s more the issues and failures happen a lot more as soon as musk gets involved. Like the starship launchpad failure
we’re supposed to let him
He won’t ask you.
He should be an example and do it himself.
Yeah that’s not going to happen.
How crazy would it be tho if we found out he really was an early adopter, had one put it in a decade ago, and that’s why he’s so bat shit now?
Did kanye west get one too?
He absolutely will. Granted it’ll be after all the little kinks like meningitis, aluminum poisoning, spontaneous ignition, malicious hacking, eternal nightmare states, blindness, cancer, and cluster headaches are ironed out. 90% death rate, babyyy
He should do the same with “flying to Mars” first.
Both at the same time
Just like colonization of Mars. He can go first, with or without others
Day 1 after implantation: this is great! I now have photographic memory of everything! Best decision ever.
Day 20: I’ve memorized so much so fast, I’m going to have to go for the next higher up subscription level to unlock more storage.
Day 200: I’m running out of space again. Going for the plus subscription.
Day 600: ran out of storage space again. I can’t afford the next higher subscription. I’m going to have to start deleting unnecessary memories. My brain has lost its natural ability to make and retain memories by itself. I can’t even function on a daily basis without free storage space.
Day 700: I have run out of memories that I’m willing to part away with. I still can’t afford the higher subscription. Luckily there is a cheaper tier. All I have to do is give NeuraLink full access and rights over my memories for marketing and AI training purposes.
Day 900: They have increased the cost of subscription. I can’t afford it. I’m going to lose half of my storage space. I have two days to choose which of my memories to keep. The rest will be no longer accessible to me, but will still be used by Neuralink for their own purposes as they own those memories now.
Day 1200: the chip will no longer be supported next month. I can’t afford the new model. It will be disabled in 30 days.
Day 1235: I have just found this diary. It explains a lot. I only wished it told me what my name is.
You forgot the part where you agreed to let them harvest your organs if you fail to pay your subscription fees.
Also, suddenly you’re unable to say negative things about Elon Musk for some reason.
He hopes to woo advertisers back by beaming ads directly into your most treasured memories
Well done, do you write for work/hobby?
Nah, I’m just a bored guy on the internet
Well kudos bored guy on the internet. It was a riveting read.
Nah, I just follow orders
So the plot of Johnny Mnemonic?
Well I’d like to implant my foot in his ass so….
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If he doesn’t go first no nation should allow it. Dude is a fraud.
Elon can go first.
I don’t trust this guy with anything he touches. I’m a transhumanist and this technology is intriguing, but again, Elon fucking upwards Musk.
Let’s give him a chip and watch for the next 5+ years how it goes, then decide how to go on.
Maybe that’s what we watched for the last 5 years?
Ah, that explains it. ;-p
With his ethics there’s no way I’d let any company controlled by him attach itself to my brain.
I have a hard time imagining that for any profit driven corporation, but most especially him.
Musk wanting it is more than enough reason for me to want to avoid it like the plague.
Not that I would want any sort of brain implant anyway, but Musk being involved make it even less desirable than it already was.
Made by the same guy who brought you the cyber truck , yeah, I’ll pass
To be fair, I don’t think he was really involved in the development of that thing other than the original idea maybe. But, to be fair, that original idea was probably even worse than the finished product.
After COVID we have to retire “avoid like the plague”. Too many people were happy to go to plague gatherings.
Too many people were happy to go to plague gatherings.
I also avoid the types of people who would intentionally do something that idiotic.
What is really scary to me is that many people dont see billionaires as they are, especially since they want to be rich themselves and likely look up to them like some twisted rolemodels.
Ultimately, we are at the mercy of the masses and those masses are somewhat controlled by few people. If somehow people want to start using those implants, those who dont want to will be pressured to get one too.
Another weird thing that Conservatives want to do.
While complaining that “the left” are trying to inject tracking chips into our bodies.
Many of their conspiracy theories are distractions from the very real and very scary conspiracies they’re actually engaged in
I do love this. They worry about Bill gates doing this, a guy who is primarily focused on putting toilets in Africa… When an electric car guy (they used to hate electric cars) wants to literally microchip peoples brains but also gives mega money and a platform to the GOP, he’s great, no conspiracy theories to be found here.
I bet this evil fuck has all kinds of patents around this idea so when someone who isn’t a psychopath James Bond villain wants to help people with disabilities by developing a similar device…they won’t be able to.
Of…course he does? Maybe with an evil laugh?
Musk is essentially as close to a supervillain as IRL gets.
Aspiring supervillan, please.
I really don’t understand why anyone is giving that goofball a platform.
nobody is giving him a platform so he had to spend $44b to buy one.
He pays for it lol
This is 2024, you should know this.
then we circle jerk him in the comments, so we are also part of the circus
I do not get how this asshole gets approved for this when he can’t even make a car correctly.
$$$$$$
He shoulda gone first 🧠🔫
They’re injecting microchips! Said no antivaxx about this ever.
