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My understanding is that what musk is doing isn't new in the sense of novel but new in the sense that he's pushed the refinement of the technology to the outer
by noir_lord 7y ago
My understanding is that what musk is doing isn't new in the sense of novel but new in the sense that he's pushed the refinement of the technology to the outer envelope.
Which is a pattern with him (and a good one) in that he takes existing tech and pushes it to the outer envelope, batteries, motors and rockets all existed long before musk was born but he's done valuable and interesting things with them.
Someone had to make a technology for for market.
- stinos 7y agonew in the sense that he's pushed the refinement of the technology That's what I understood as well. For example there's a mutlitude of practical problems with current in-brain electrodes, ranging from limits in the amount of them, their lifetime, lifetime of connectors, surgeries being quite difficult, possible problems with infections etc. None of them are extremely hard to solve but it basically requires a ton of money being thrown at and that seems to be Musk's plan, allowing to get like 3000 electrodes with the preamp/digitizer stage implanted subcutaneously.