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I'm not surprised given the person in charge, but I still feel bad for the guy. Being almost completely paralyzed, it makes total sense to jump at the chance to get some normalcy back.

I didn't expect 85% of the wires to already detach at this point. In a just society, the whole company would be shut down and the CEO put into a bottomless pit.

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[-] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago

Could cybernetic implants be done safely and responsibly? It's quite possible.

Will cybernetic implants ever be done safely and responsibly under capitalism? Hell no.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Your augs will play ads at random times unless you buy the premium upgrade. And they will play ads in your dreams

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Dreams are basically the only place left capitalism hasn't colonized (sorry curry-space, SpaceX ruined that one). If they ever found a way to inject car insurance and fast food commercials into my dreams, I might actually adventure-time

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Strawberry Mansion is a ‘fun’ 2021 movie about just that idea.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or they'll move to a subscription model even though you paid initially for unlimited access to your [vital organ of choice]

[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

When Arbaugh asked if his implant could be removed, fixed, or even replaced, Neuralink’s medical team relayed they would prefer to avoid another brain surgery and instead gather more information.

most ethical elon company

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I mean, that does seem to be the best course of action. It's not hurting him to still be in there, but it could easily hurt him to remove it.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm not going to fault them for that decision. Now if (when) they refuse to remove it if (when) it becomes inoperable, then that's an unjustifiable and unforgivable decision.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm glad they don't want to touch what they fucked up, but I think this is a case of referring him to actual neurosurgeons to help him mitigate any potential damage at their own expense. They won't because that's admitting fault for litigation purposes, but Jesus that's bad.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Imagine having a cybertruck put in your head

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

You go into a coma for opening your mouth while your brain firmware is updating

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Your brain shorts out cause your mouth is wet.

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

While I'm sure there are a number of worthwhile uses for brain implant tech (helping disabled people is the first thing coming to mind), the testing process just seems so cruel. Is there any way to perfect the tech that ISNT something out of a dystopian scifi?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Is there any way to perfect the tech that ISNT something out of a dystopian scifi?

Nope. The entirety of academic science is predicated on the dystopian scifi of modernity. E.g. the species of mouse that has been selectively bred to remain genetically identical (so it can be used as a scientific unit for experimentation) for more than a century, has been copyrighted, and is used in basically all testing. It's been squished, starved (lab animals are generally kept in a state of hunger to make them more easily controlled), diseased, burnt, drowned, cut open (while alive), shocked, etcetc. Similar treatment of many other animals (and humans in the global south, and people of colour and disabled people and women etcetc in the global north).

Our (Capitalist-European) ways of knowing are based on this brute force torture-science where we tear stuff apart to find out "what it is" (and more importantly, can it be made profitable or is it useless?) as soon as possible, and then we declare the results of this torture-science universally applicable, e.g. we declared animals stupid because we ran tests on animals we've captured, starved to ensure food motivation and locked up in cages for ease of access and tested on things humans find relevant (e.g. testing facial recognition on apes using human faces instead of ape faces; shockingly gorillas are better at telling gorillas apart than telling humans apart).

Like, it rly has to be remembered the basis of Academic European Science is rich fucks doing experiments for fun, using "raw materials" (living or otherwise) available to them as a result of their immense privilege. As their wealth was already based on e.g. literal chattel slavery they had no qualms doing literal torture on subhumans for fun and "progress", no qualms tearing up ecosystems to "study plants and animals" (bc of this, Academic science is still basically baffled by a lotta how plants and animals actually work in nature). They therefore had less than no qualms doing any of this to "improve the human condition (i.e. to make more shit for companies to sell)".

Capital was willing to work 2 year olds to death in lace mills for pretty dresses; it has less than no qualms about torturing apes or mice to death to ensure quality hair products or slightly longer human lifespans (for the rich, in the global north). Socialism (as it exists after imperialism dies, not as it exists while competing with imperialism) will likely have to (be forced to by the poorest) reconsider a lotta the stuff we in the imperial core take as necessities of life.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

great comment/summary cde rat, do rats uh dislike mice?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The killing of a mouse by a rat is called muricide

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look who studied mouse law!

spoilerDidn't know that was a thing

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

great comment

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There isn't a capability to model a complete living brain in silico, so not really at this time.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that. Given that's the current case, I'm now of the mind (tee hee) that we should...idk, maybe do that first before human and animal testing?

But that would delay pushing it to market so nope no siree can't have that

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To get the data to build and validate that type of model, you would need to study a lot more living brains than these neuralink experiments. Like, orders on orders of magnitude more. You can't really model this sort of thing from first principles.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I would say that if people were set for life in a more humane, egalitarian society, one can choose to opt into experiments without there being financial incentives to ruin informed consent.

Volunteering in this society with how they treat test subjects (a term that's already loaded as fuck) is letting an unchecked researcher and/or corporation to fuck you up and deny responsibility while waiting you out in court.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's exactly what I expected to happen, but being right isn't always much consolation.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Turns out there's nothing wrong with the chip, but the patient missed his most recent payment so they hit the "auto repossess" button and it withdrew the fibers from his brain

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

What part of the chimpanzee test subjects ripping their digits off made them think this was ready to work?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn. According to the article the Neuralink team pretty much certainly already knew this was very likely to happen. They're also telling the subject that they want to avoid the risk of another surgery to correct it.

So why the fuck did they go ahead with it before addressing the known problems??? big-honk

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

So why the fuck did they go ahead with it before addressing the known problems???

Marketing.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It says he's still able to play games and move a mouse cursor and click on things so it's not entirely useless and it's better than not being able to do any of those things. But the article is really light on details and citations so who knows what they're covering up.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The capacity you describe is already available in hobbyist grade products. Not consumer grade yet, but you can see youtubers playing with kits to do all that in their gamer chair with no surgery.

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