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I'm surprised nobody talked about the potential implications of effectively embedding, now that the device is standalone, a lithium ion battery into your skull.
by Tuxer 6y ago
I'm surprised nobody talked about the potential implications of effectively embedding, now that the device is standalone, a lithium ion battery into your skull.
I'm not a battery hater whatsoever but in the case of a thermal runoff if the battery starts burning... there is no way to get it out.
- BillinghamJ 6y agoI wondered about this, but is it not already the case with other existing devices like pacemakers etc?
- nmstoker 6y agoYes, and that's why there are such high standards for medical devices. In the presentation Elon specifically mentions their involvement with the FDA and highlighted their focus on safety (drawing a parallel with Tesla five star ratings)
- polytely 6y agoSeems like a nightmare now that I think about it, like you get a ransomware popup beamed into your visual cortex saying: "We are in your brain, wire the contents of your bank account to the following bitcoin adres: <adress>. If you do not comply, we will blow up your neuralink, if you try to alert anyone, we will blow up your neuralink. We are watching, you have 2 hours, good luck." "01:59:59" "01:59:58" ...
- zipwitch 6y ago"it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the ... middle all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who's somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself." -Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
- lightgreen 6y agoThis imaginary problem can be solved by having a hardware off switch.
- antpls 6y agoImagine your brain got so used to the neuralink interactions and benefits that turning it off causes an insurmontable pain (like drugs)
- lightgreen 6y agoSure if someone has two improbable situations combined, they are doomed. But they are more likely to be killed by a lightning.
- Faaak 6y ago/If we sense that you think about turning off your neuralink, we will blow it up/
- lightgreen 6y agoIf we can read your mind, we don't need to ask you to do anything, we will just read all your passwords and do everything ourselves.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoReminds me of https://mobile.twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/285670822264307712?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/2856708222...
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoTo be clear, I don't think this is a solution to either. The entire reason why people suffer from anti-social behavior delivered through computers is that computers are a real part of our world at this point. Simply disengaging may not be an effective way of dealing with it. It's still a funny tweet though.
- nickik 6y agoLithium ion is not one thing, one type of battery, but describes a very wide range of batteries. If you are willing to pay more and use more advanced materials for the difference parts of the battery, you can make it way secure. We don't do that yet for cars as for the amount of batteries you need, it would make the car to expensive. However for medical devices, such batteries are already in us and with all the research into batteries today, this will improve even more. I'm more concerned about my head being drilled open, metal put into my head and having a BLE connection. The battery is the least of my worries.
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