• nifty
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    355 months ago

    I can already stream music into my head, and all without invasive surgery. What an innovation.

    • Lemminary
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      135 months ago

      Yes, but imagine trains but worse! Why aren’t you excited??

      • nifty
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        65 months ago

        Next thing you’ll tell me they’ll be selling monthly subscriptions to use those trains.

    • @can@sh.itjust.works
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      45 months ago

      Me too, but not everyone can actually. Still doesn’t mean this is worthwhile. Look up anauralia (the sound version of aphantasia, which is a lack of mind’s eye visually).

      (sorry to anyone who discovers they have it from this comment)

      • nifty
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        25 months ago

        Ah fr, that’s interesting. I’ve been able to construct orchestral pieces in my dreams, though I have no training in instruments. I guess it’s from memory of things Ive heard.

  • @Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    225 months ago

    Where the fuck are all the “Mark of the beast” people, am I living in crazy time? Fuck I’m living in crazy time…

  • @MrEff@lemmy.world
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    I do audiology research and can tell you right now, short of a cochlear implant -no we can’t. And we are easily about two decades away from anything close. And even then, a CI can’t make music sound as good as your ears. There is no ‘one’ place in the brain you can imput music into. The most dense and easiest place to input the music is in the cochlea, like a cochlear implant does. Every place up the chain then branches out to thousands of connections and makes it harder and harder. And every step higher up that you try to interface into means you are skipping the initial signal generator and lose out on all the needed fidelity. The next step above a CI is an ABI, auditory brainstem inplant. And they sound so bad, just going one stop up from the cochlea, that those users barely can understand speech and only in the best settings. And normally after about a year of auditory therapy with it. Realistically we tell people (the handfull a year who will end up with one) that they should expect to get sound awareness, and that’s it, from their ABI. And now Elon talks about wanting to go another half dozen steps up from that and magically have the fidelity to make it sound like music?? GTFO. This guy is a moron and doesn’t know what he is talking about.

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      Plus, it’s really not worth the problems associated with brain chips. Even the Neuralink Human Test subjects ran into the same problem we’ve faced for decades: the connecting tissue dies. It might work for a few months and then people are going to need ANOTHER brain surgery to either remove it or fix it, if it even works multiple times to begin with.

      I wonder who they’re going to name the disease after when repeated Nueralink failures cause irreparable lifelong disease.

  • @TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
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    145 months ago

    If you have ADHD, you don’t even need a Neuralink chip. Music is always playing in your head, whether you want it or not.

    For example, seeing this post just triggered a rickroll in my head and I can’t turn it off.

  • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    Remind me again, how many monkeys died an excruciating death because of this implant?

    He also says Teslas are fully self driving, and we know the truth about that.

    Any idiot can say any dumb ol thing that pops into their brain. It takes some wisdom not to.

  • IninewCrow
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    105 months ago

    More like … a permanent watermark in your vision whether you are awake or asleep for ‘X.com’ … or you have to pay $9.99 a month to remove it.

    • @Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee
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      25 months ago

      Both his albums “50” and “Beautiful Life” are pretty great! And he does a ton of great covers l his Youtube channel!

  • Pyr
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    45 months ago

    And it will not let you vote unless there’s an R next to the ballot selection, otherwise it tells your brain to drop the pen

  • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    45 months ago

    Am I the only one thinking, what if they hack it and make people’s heads explode? I’m good on all of this if it’s ever a thing. Considering how much control they have over cars remotely, you know they will have full control of this, and that’s pretty scary.

  • @Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    35 months ago

    Elon musk also says it’ll let you shit flowers and breathe hard vaccum. Melon husk just makes shit up whenever he feels like it. It’s not going to stream music into your brain. They still can’t even get it to stop killing the testing animals.