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I'm no fan of Elon at all, but at least most of his endeavors amount to something like "haha look at the funny rich man" at worst. Neuralink on the other hand i
by Doxin 4y ago
I'm no fan of Elon at all, but at least most of his endeavors amount to something like "haha look at the funny rich man" at worst. Neuralink on the other hand is giving me proper existential dread. I can't decide what's going to be worse, it working or it not working.
If it doesn't work they are gonna be essentially maiming a bunch of people to figure that out. If on the other hand it does work we're only a short road away from ads on the inside of your eyelids and other such dystopian technologies.
I'm no luddite, but it'll be a cold cold day in hell when I let anyone implant tech in my brain, let alone Elon Musk.
- lambdadmitry 4y agoWhat do you mean "it's not working"? We already have BCIs for paralysed people, they're quite bad: very invasive, very expensive, very poor user experience, e.g. [1]. What Neuralink is doing right already looks much better than those and they're only in the business for five years. You need to separate the hype from the tech, especially so with Musk. The tech looks great. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oka8hqsOzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oka8hqsOzg
- Doxin 4y agoYou can't just put something between quotes and pretend I said it. I agree there's some great brain interface related tech out there, and there's a bunch of awesome stuff being worked on. Musk being the shepherd of such a project terrifies me. He has almost exactly the wrong personality for it.