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That's akin to saying that phones are basic since we already had desktops in the 1990s. Having 10x more electrodes that stay active for a long time, attached t

• graderjs 5y ago
  That's what I'm saying. Exactly. I don't think it's "easier" to use 2000 electrodes in a microneural mesh. Besides that, why the pushback? Is it coming from field experts who are like, "bah, old hat as shiny new. humbug!"; disappointed futurists who expected more ("we were promised flying cars and intelligent robotic spouses, and all we got was 2000 electrodes in our brains, and 140 characters"); misMuskists; people who sense unfairness in praises lauded upon this, in their mind, mediocre achievement, echoing to them a theme that the already-anointed and, in their view, undeserving, accrue all praise, while the genuinely meritful, themselves, for example, are overlooked, yet again?
• elil17 5y ago
  It’s not that it’s nothing new - it’s obviously not identical to previous BMIs. But the thing people are reacting too is mostly the MindPong part (genuinely basic) and not the 10x electrode part (novel). It’s not like a paradigm shift, it’s a practice run for them to see if they can replicate previous successes with some changes to the tech.
• dekhn 5y ago
  I'm going to echo that this is not really as impressive as neuralink is saying. It's a good incremental improvement, but no breakthrough, and enough people have shown similar results. It's still quite far from achieving Musk's dream of uploading his brain into a robot body to fight the AI Singularity.