Neuralink has FDA clearance to start messing with people’s heads—and not just figuratively.
  • @Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77•2 years ago

    After what happened to all those monkeys I still can’t believe he got permission to move to human trials. You’d have to be stupid or insane to volunteer for this.

    • @__ghost__@lemmy.mlEnglish
      36•2 years ago

      Musk has perfected the self selection of morons, I’m sure they’ll have plenty of test subjects to toy with

    • KokeshEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      He has lots of people obsessed with him who do believe anything he says.

    • proleEnglish
      24•2 years ago

      This is some Josef Mengele shit. He better be held accountable after this inevitable shit show.

    • @technojamin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      Wow, thank you for linking that article, I hadn’t read it yet. That’s absolutely horrible, and it doesn’t surprise me that Elon has orchestrated something so cruel in the name of progress.

  • Zellith
    61•2 years ago

    https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

    UC Davis veterinary records cited by the Physicians Committee—which WIRED also obtained through a subsequent California public records request—chronicle a battery of complications that developed following procedures involving electrodes being surgically implanted into monkeys’ brains. The complications include bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema, a condition colloquially known as “brain swelling.”

    Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.

    Yeah. I think I’ll pass.

      • proleEnglish
        25•2 years ago

        I think whomever it was at the FDA that approved this shit for human trials needs to be investigated. It reeks of corruption.

  • @Tandybaum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53•2 years ago

    This really might be the one that gets him. It’s one thing when self driving doesn’t quite work right or when that tunnel project gets abandoned. If they install these things and people get seriously hurt (I know cars can hurt people) it’s going to be a shit storm.

        • @cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          What is actually known about Musk’s drug use? I heard he was on Ambien and he obviously smokes weed now and again, what else is our little genius hopped up on?

          Edit: I have zero evidence for this but I can’t see how Adderall or something similar is not involved. He’s Aspie so its a little tricky to seperate that out but I dont know how anyone that “productive”/active isnt on something Xtra

          Edit: by heard I meant Musk said it, whilst smoking on JRE

          • @bus_go_fast@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Truth doesn’t matter to Musk, so we should care about the truth when talking about him. He lies, promotes white suprmacist rheotric and conspiracies. The whole Twitter buy thing seems so odd. What a dipshit.

    • @s1nistr4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21•2 years ago

      Virgin Bill Gates: “The covid vaccine doesn’t contain any microchips…I-I promise!”

      Chad Elon Musk: “I will literally microchip your brain”

  • @58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52•2 years ago

    Rather appropriately, allowing Elon Musk’s crew to operate on your brain is proof that you do indeed need brain surgery.

  • @PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36•2 years ago

    I’m never getting one. If it ever gets to the point where I have to get a brain implant as a condition for a employment, and all the jobs are like that then I guess I’ll just be homeless.

  • @Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25•2 years ago

    The fact he hasn’t had one installed himself shows he has no confidence in his product. Please don’t go on twitter and tell him he shouldn’t sell products he refuses to use.

    • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      -11•2 years ago

      What do you mean? You see no potential for anything good coming from this at all? I certainly see some things to fuck about this (including the asshole payroll ING the project) but not “Everything”

      • @cabron_offsets@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13•2 years ago

        I discount quite heavily any knowledge that may come of this because musk is a goddamn egomaniacal child. I take all of his shit with a heaping dose of skepticism. Put a serious thinker in charge and I’d have a different opinion.

        • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          -6•2 years ago

          Yeah he will fuck it up and use it for evil, but the science is sound and this should help the race for commercialization and improved safety for reanimation implants only available at super selective research levels currently. Don’t be a luddite about any potential for good. Most things are shades of grey guy.

      • @BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I see a select few medical devices benefiting from this, which they would have eventually gotten to anyways without musk and his extremely poor research methods.

        I’m never getting anything like this. Doubly so if it’s developed by big tech. The possible benefits don’t even get close to outweighing the negatives

          • @BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0•2 years ago

            I guarantee musk isn’t going to be healing paraplegics with this. That research is being done by medical professionals who haven’t killed all their test subjects.

            This is being done to make as much money as possible at the expense of as many lives need to be sacrificed to get there.

    • Zellith
      11•2 years ago

      He already had it implanted. That’s why he is so fucked up.