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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the intended use.

Human/brain interfaces have tons of potential for helping people with injuries to their central nervous system. Someone could eventually regain the ability to walk with just a few chips and electrodes.

However if it's like "fuck yeah I wanna mainline the Internet" then yeah, that shit sucks.

Of course Elon owns the company, so it's bound to be the stupid thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yes, helping people in a medical sense that is totally acceptable. But I really don't want them to become something like smartphone. Yeah you can live without a smartphone but realistically it is not possible.