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Let's assume he makes Neuralink happen in the sense of really giving a locked-in person the ability to communicate in real words and sentences. He now has the

Let's assume he makes Neuralink happen in the sense of really giving a locked-in person the ability to communicate in real words and sentences. He now has the network to connect those people directly to the rest of the world, under his umbrella. Sure, he could have just used (old) Twitter's API, and that's what he'll be using, but it won't be "we (as in 'Neuralink') and Twitter made this happen", but "we (my companies)" made this happen. I also wonder how useful Twitter's infrastructure could be for machine-to-machine communication, where he certainly could have some uses for it with Tesla and Starlink.

aredox 4y ago
"under his umbrella"... Is that supposed to be an attempt at imagining the most horrible future possible? Umbrella corporation anyone?
freejazz 4y ago
- qwertox 4y ago
  I'm saying this from the perspective that he made a shitty acquisition and trying to see ways he could consider it as a positive thing. If I'd had made this acquisition, specially in the circumstances he did it, I'd probably get so depressed that I'd put and end to it all. I'm not a fanboy, but I'm also not a hater.
  - freejazz 4y ago
    It just reads like inane, nonsensical science fiction.
    - robbiep 4y ago
      ‘Ah yes. We can give your child with locked in syndrome a communications path with the rest of the world, but it can only be through the twitter API. Also his ventilator? Also needs twitter API. Yes, that’s right. His life support and all communication in and out relies on a flimsy message board. Connection outages? Well, it can’t happen. We’ve got starlink on the back of his wheelchair. Tunnels? Oh no, don’t go in tunnels’