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Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records (futurism.com)
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An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

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[+] -83 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Probably. Human beings also died when we were figuring out organ transplants, and still do, sometimes.

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  • [–] 84 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Yeah the deaths from organ transplants, the risky operations performed as a last ditch effort to save patients who would otherwise die from incurable organ failure, definitely justifies killing 1500 monkeys to allow people to tweet by thinking.

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  • [+] -80 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

    If you think that's the primary purpose of neuralink, then there's no point discussing this with you.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    The primary purpose of neuralink is to make neuralink corp, and by extension elon musk, money.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Which is why you can trust them to put stuff in your brain.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So, what's the point en neuralink that justifies killing monkeys and now a few humans? It's that important to bring us a few steps forward into another dystopia?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Short term: giving people with certain disabilities control over their bodies. Things like allowing paralysed people the ability to move, or giving sight to the blind, etc. Long term: changing the way we communicate with computers and each other.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago

    A transplanted organ is considered a morbid condition in and of itself. The patient is dying, just less quickly than without the transplant.

    I'd think this might have improved with cloned organs, but I don't think those are common enough to tell.

    Billionaires do not seem ro mind when people die for their vanity projects, and Musk is pushing this one quickly.

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