Technology

As someone who likes the idea of transhumanism:

I'ma fuckin' pass, dog.

I'mma call it right here, shot will go south, quickly, people will end up in prison, and Musk will somehow not be one of them.

i give it max a year or two after the first implant before we read about trials starting in the headlines.

If he wants to get in front of the line then he's welcome to.

When I look at what he's done to Twitter, I definitely think 'yeah I want this dude's chip in my head!'

Exactly what we need, billionaires tinkering with brain chips. I‘d rather die than have anything from Musk in my head, bad enough the knowledge of his existence is in there.

Where are all those people who were worried vaccines had chips in them? Now this guy is literally saying he's going to chip you and nothing lol

I’m neurodivergent and I would love a chip to help with that, but this company decided it’s leader is Musk and I don’t trust him. He used to be a hero in my eyes until the Twitter fiasco. Then I saw him for what he was.

This is all you need to know from the article:

"On at least four occasions since 2019, Musk predicted that Neuralink would soon start human trials."

He said a lot of things ... He's like Trump - full mouth of words but reality is always another thing

I'd rather live in a cave for the rest of my life than let CrazyElon brain chip me.

This is completely dystopian.

As others have said, Elon should test this on himself before he tests it on others, if he's really so confident in it.

It is inevitable that this will have negative health effects, and when that happens, Elon will just wipe his hands and say "not my problem".

Brain chips? What was wrong with potatoes?

Given a descendant of this technology has the potential for seizure moderation, which is something my sister basically will need as the medication she uses will inevitably require doses that would destroy her liver or leave her all but vegetative. It's super interesting from a technical aspect and hyper-relevant.

However, given Musk's antics especially as of late? I wouldn't trust him to not accidentally intentionally kill people, or use it as a way to have an unremovable keylogger with the end goal of 'Oh those are some nice eyes you've got there,' or 'lovely able to live without going into convulsions isn't it? It'd be a shame if that changed.'

I wouldn't trust Musk if he told me that water makes things wet.

He's a snake oil salesman.

I want a brain chip in theory.

I don't want any current human to have anything to do with it. The average human's comprehension of life, consciousness, what it is to be human etc are so far behind ideal, I wouldn't trust anyone currently alive to start testing a direct brain-computer interface.

In several hundred years when we have Trek style space communism, sure!

Honestly I won't get one but I'm fine for Elon to break into it. I kinda feel like that's the only thing he does well. Funnels money into concepts people believe are impossible. Fail until there's some small success and let other, more competent people learn from those failures. I think I'd rather have that than stay stagnant and/or have the Russian brain chip become the standard

Just like complete FSD is only a year away... And how about that Cybertruck

given Tesla's trackrecord, paraplegics beware!
obviously other ways get less coverage because it's not as excitingly scifi as propping metal in your brain, but I think I would rather a CTRL-Labs armwrist even if it is owned by Facebook
if you're excited about this kind of stuff I would recommend reading more about OpenBCI, or y'know, anything that already has results within moving things with a thought.
I would sooner look to VR (as soon as we get commercial batteries that can keep up) to be the replacement 'second brain' for a computer if we're talking about the idea he once talked about accessing the internet from anywhere

If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still take several years, potentially more than a decade, for the start-up to secure commercial use clearance, experts earlier told Reuters. The company is also competing with other neurotech companies which have already implanted their devices in people.

like idk journalists should stop talking about Neuralink, all it does is risk stocks related to Musk go up, though this one is soberingly skeptical.