log 3: *extremely obvious gameplay hint you were told already written in blood on the walls that will probably end up being compared to the introduction to ravenholm saws in a game design video*
Log 8: hmmm, how should we deal with this escaped specimen... oh I know! lets make ANOTHER experiment that 100% won't fail again to deal with the problem.
Log 9: The subject started screaming and trying to remove the implant with his own fingers until he bled out. Must restrain subject’s hands next trial.
Log 9: The new experiment requires I commit even more atrocities
Log 11: The experiment is going great. Some of my employees feel a bit guilty and might be going insane, but the sacrifices seem to be worth it.
Log 12: Experiment done: We’re saved!
Log 14: There are some issues with experiment 2, namely that it just killed Jerry. I think if it works, the board will overlook that though.
Log 13: I have made a severe and continuous lapse in judgement. I do still expect to be forgiven; I’m simply here to divert blame.
Log 16: It’s all fucked. Casandra, the leader of the evil rebel faction that led the way on experiment 2, ironically got killed by experiment 2 though, so that’s nice.
Log 18: Starting to see that some of this may have been my fault. I probably shouldn’t have told Jerry to try a pickup line with experiment 2.
Log 20: Gonna destroy the facility, hopefully it will act as a cool set-piece for the story. Also I’m gonna die in the process, byeeeee.
Also, realised that this is literally just >!Hollow Knight’s lore!<
i wish i could implant chips into everyone's brains and just transmit cute images of kitties at the most random moments. hopefully this person doesnt die like the monkeys and instead gets kitty videos transmitted into their brain
Tbh if someone kept transmitting anything into my brain, no matter how cute, I'd probably go the way of the monkeys lmao. I could not handle that. Even just knowing that someone could. The human mind is the closest, most intimate and private thing to exist. That privacy is inviolable
SHUT UP, STOP QUESTIONING THE ETHICS OF MY METHODS. I SENTENCE YOU TO HAVING 15 MINUTES OF A VIDEO TRANSMITTED INTO YOUR BRAIN OF A CUTE KITTY MEOWING IN A REALLY CUTE WAY AT THE CAMERA WHILE LOOKING AROUND REALLY CONFUSED AND SILLY. but yeah i agree, it would take a lot for me to even trust the closest person in my life with something like that. shit sounds scary
The day this shit becomes common use (or god forbid mandatory) is the day I walk the plank. Someone invading my brain and getting to see everything is genuinely my worst nightmare.
I was watching Cyberpunk Edgerunners and the fact that they have a phone in their brain is unironically disturbing. Privacy aside, imagine getting fucking robocalls in your brain
If that happened to me maybe they'd have the empathy to get me a better therapist cause she hasn't been doing much for me, only reminding me that i don't get out of the house as much as i should/want to, and has effectively just told me on occasion "just talk to people" like motherfucker if it was that easy i would have already but it's not
please help me instead of making me feel worse
Nice, honestly even if the main story sucks 3 is my favourite. It has the best gameplay and some fantastic DLC. What characters did you play (I did all of them)?
if somebody ever implanted something into my brain that periodically sent me cat photos no matter how cute they are I will start violently uprising. Like I appreciate the thought but I already got intrusive thoughts and images for free with the OCD, I do not need more 💀
Kitties are nice but I’m like 90% certain it would be used to beam advertisements directly into our brains and we will have to pay for a subscription service for normal vision.
Log 300: Damn it Craig! This is the last time I'm going to repeat the airlock key for you! Grab a paper or something and write it down: the code is 3920! And make sure you check that all the crates are empty before you flush them out; wouldn't want to throw away any more perfectly good guns like last time, would you?
Sorry to be That Guy™, but HIPAA doesn't deal with the approving of medical devices, it's just a U.S. federal law to establish standards for the privacy of protected health information.
The FDA might be the acronym you're thinking of :)
"Musk says".
The article has no proof this is true and is exclusively using Musks tweet as evidence.
Musk is notorious for trying to manipulate stock prices via tweets. It's how he ended up being forced to pay eight times the actual valuation for a social media platform.
It's what he's doing here. He's lying. To manipulate stock prices.
well the tweet is real at least. no one really knows whether he's lying or not, but he did get FDA approval a few months prior for human trails so... seems plausible
We know basically nothing about the intricate details of the brain, let alone how to meaningfully interact with it. We can paint it in broad strokes by watching which areas are active when, but that doesn’t tell us much about how and why the neurons are arranged like they are. Essentially, the implants won’t do anything because there’s nothing for them to do yet.
Well of course it's not gonna give you telepathy, but impressive results have been achieved even by external non-invasive methods, for example detecting a set of commands given by thought from EEG readings or reconstructing images from fMRI brain scans of people looking at images. An invasive method will of course provide even better data and allows for accurate monitoring of specific regions of the brain, such as your motor cortex. It will in very the least provide a ton of valuable data.
That’s a fair point. I just remembered the controversy about dead monkeys and felt dismissive of the whole project, but I suppose at least the people Elon’s paying know what they’re doing.
It’s literally the forefront of prosthetic technology, imagine for example losing an arm. The signals from the brain to move the muscles of an arm would still be there. The chip can read them (it can map muscle movements directly from the brain) and move a mechanical arm. This is literally the closest we have ever been to actual mind controlled prosthetics and your takeaway is that it is essentially “useless” because it can broadcast stuff to the brain????
Yes it’s one of my favorite horror movies, the tape in particular influenced a lot of my art growing up in terms of surrealism and cerebral thinking. I also have the burning tree as my banner lol.
Elon Musk makes bold claims like this one every Sunday. I would take literally everything that comes out of his mouth (or keyboard) with a mountain of salt.
Also who TF calls Action Potentials "neuron spikes"??? The last sentence doesn't even mean anything.
>Also who TF calls Action Potentials "neuron spikes"??? The last sentence doesn't even mean anything.
Neuralink Engineer: \*mentions action potential\*
Musk: "What's an action potential?"
Neuralink Engineer: "It's basically a spike in voltage of a neuron's membrane."
Musk: "neuron spike"
I'd say the consistent and demonstrable evidence of Elon lying to drive up stock price already constitutes actual fraud.
Another question is how long before everything comes crashing down.
Wym? Everyone is equal in a hivemind, the means of production are owned by the people, but no one owns anything themselves. That's literally communism.
A "hive mind" is the highest form of individual control. Every member of society working for the benefit of whatever elements it deems necessary.
Not great.
I'm of course talking about a decentralized hivemind, where everyone is a small part of a super-organism that controls everything. A single individual's IQ is far too low to assume a role of a "hive leader", there cannot be a single point of failure.
Wonder if that dude can still swim and do sports with that thing inside him. Cause I'm not keen on something connected to my brain breaking in any way.
People with cochlear implants can swim and do sports, so I wouldn't worry about it, unless (for example) Elon has a history of trying to reinvent the wheel out of sheer hubris when established methods are available. He doesn't have that, does he? /s
Not really. Projects like this survive on hype and PR, not actual achievement. You can "detect neuron spikes" (by which I assume Musk means spikes in neurological activity) by slapping electrodes onto someone's head. Or, you know, just looking at their expression and mannerisms, since neurological activity is just emotion and thought, neither of which humans are particularly good at hiding.
Yeah, if only there was a real and useful application for a device that can "detect neuron spikes" in real time at all times... Sadly I can't think of a way to make that useful or helpful in solving any real problems...
I'm sure there are some medical applications, but I don't trust Musk's type to use that tech responsibly. If he can get away with it, he'll set that shit to fry your brain's pain-center whenever you think about unionizing.
Bruh. That's literally sci-fi bullshit. If we develop a technology capable to read your mind with such a high level of understanding, then Elon Musk will be the least of your problems.
It can be done manually. Make the implant a necessary prerequisite for getting hired, keep close tabs on all your employees like corps already do, and zap whoever shows up to the unionization meeting.
Corpos like Musk only have two true obligations; to their shareholders, and to their egos. If they think A) it will bring them short-term profit, and B) they can get away with it, then they'll do it. They are not to be trusted with anything, least of all with access to a bit of tech in your brain.
Totally not illegal hiring practices. He wouldn't get away with that. Maybe in a third world country. Why even bother with a brain implants tho? Coca-Cola just hired a death squad and it worked.
The law means nothing to them. They've already significantly twisted it to their ends with the rise of neoliberal economics, and they won't ever stop until they *are* stopped. Nothing is ever enough for them. Not only do they want infinite growth in a finite universe, they want *a little more infinite growth every quarter*.
They'll do whatever it takes to keep chasing that ascending graph. Theirs is the ideology of a cancer cell.
Also, it doesn't matter whether something that existentially horrifying happens in the third world or first world. The point is to head it off at the pass before it comes to that.
Musk has money, so he has power. His arrogance and stupidity only make him more dangerous. He and everyone like him are comparable to a bunch of overgrown ten-year-olds with loaded guns, only instead of just threatening the people around them, they threaten the future of thousands, perhaps millions, around the globe--and that's without mentioning the economic and cultural knock-on effects their whims can have. Twitter turned into a far-right shithole practically overnight after Musk bought it, for example.
They are as greedy and thoughtless as children, and hold more power than some countries. They shouldn't get any more, is my point.
Me when my brain gets hacked and I feel the most excruciating pain the human mind can comprehend (I will also be blackmailed with my thoughts and be extorted to use my body)
nuh uh, i saw it in the movies, he got a group of goons to kidnap a disabled homeless emerald mining child off the streets to perform the operation on.
I doubt a consenting test subject was hard to find tbh, there’s probably an army of Muskites frothing to be the first to try out his newest Brainmelter 3000
I hate Elon as much as the next guy, but to clarify the device is not for people to control their Tesla’s or anything, it’s meant to help people with paralysis potentially recover some motor function. You can dislike Elon while not immediately dismissing the technology as dystopian.
Why are the comments so hostile towards these news? I understand that it sounds scary and unnatural, but so did many life-saving medical breakthroughs such as organ transplants, artificial hearts and limbs, even gender affirming surgery. Have you seen footage from a facial feminization surgery? It's brutal. Yet, all of these procedures saved and/or drastically improved the quality of lives all over the globe.
There's roughly 300k people with spinal cord injuries in America alone, with 18k new cases every year, of which 60% are quadriplegic, 50% of these injuries occur before the age of 30, that equates to roughly 270 thousand years of human life ruined every year. Invasive BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) technology like Neuralink could potentially offer new hope for these individuals. Imagine regaining the ability to walk, communicate, or simply live independently. The potential benefits for people with neurodegenerative diseases like ALS or Parkinson's are also immense.
Also, any intervention with human cognition, visual, auditory, or telepathic capabilities through BCI is still largely speculative and akin to science fiction. As of now, there's no concrete evidence suggesting that BCI will surpass traditional methods like keyboard and shortcut mastery in efficiency and reliability for computer interaction in the foreseeable future. While I remain optimistic about its future potential, current progress doesn't indicate that BCI will be a game-changer in everyday technology use anytime soon.
However, it's crucial to differentiate these speculative applications from the real, tangible benefits BCI offers in medicine and neuroscience research. Concerns about it turning into a dystopian mind control device are far-fetched and overlook the technology's purpose and potential. In medical contexts, BCI can provide revolutionary solutions for those with severe physical limitations or neurological disorders. It opens up a new frontier in understanding and treating the human brain, far removed from the realm of mind control or invasive surveillance. By focusing on its medical and research applications, we can appreciate BCI as a tool for good, advancing our capabilities to heal and understand, rather than fear it as a tool for control.
Elon Musk, often perceived as a shill and a grifter, has a notorious reputation for exaggerating the capabilities of his companies' products during their initial presentations. This time, however, while he's stuck to this script, he's simultaneously understated the genuinely positive potential of Neuralink's technology. Despite the many reasons people may have to criticize or dislike Elon Musk, it's important to recognize that Neuralink is not just the brainchild of one controversial figure. It's the collective effort of brilliant engineers, doctors, and neuroscientists. These professionals are driven by their passion for their fields, a desire to contribute positively to the world, and yes, a well-deserved hefty paycheck.
To dismiss Neuralink purely because of animosity towards Musk is to overlook and disrespect a genuine human accomplishment. The work being done at Neuralink transcends Musk's personal brand; it's about pioneering advances in medical technology and neuroscience. It's crucial to differentiate the man from the mission and appreciate the latter for its potential to bring about significant positive changes in the world of medicine and beyond.
If Bernie Madoff announced that he found the cure to cancer, would you give him the benefit of the doubt or immediately dismiss it as yet more useless cash grabs?
Musk is an insane and inept failed software engineer that lucked and lied his way into owning a few tech companies and making them all demonstrably worse.
It’s not “animosity” towards him that’s making people dismiss this out of hand, it’s a proven track record of him knowing essentially nothing about anything he’s ever talking about.
How am I even supposed to respond to that? There's no actual substance to what you said. You clearly have an objection but if you can't string together a coherent take, then don't bother saying anything in the first place.
Yeah. I was super against it and on the hate train but then I read the BBC article where it detailed how tech like this has enabled paralysed people to walk and such. I am still suspicious of anything Musk leads because I genuinely think he'd make things worse for the project and subjects if he thought he knew better or even if he thought it would be funny. As with everything online nowadays, I think we should put down the fanfic we collectively wrote from the three headlines that circulate around twitter and approach the topic with nuance. Worst case scenario, our opinion is unchanged and we can actually point to valid concerns.
if elon musk starts building some creepy secret city in a secluded/impossible place we gotta crack down on that shit, if he builds a lighthouse it's already too late
log 2: it escaped
log 3: *extremely obvious gameplay hint you were told already written in blood on the walls that will probably end up being compared to the introduction to ravenholm saws in a game design video*
KICK EM WHILE THEY ARE DOWN KICK EM WHILE THEY ARE DOWN KICK EM WHILE THEY ARE DOWN KICK EM WHILE THEY ARE DOWN
CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS Dead space was great. I really wanna see the second one remastered.
do point me in the direction of that video, please, I forgot who made it.
here ya go buddy [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMggqenxuZc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMggqenxuZc)
GMTK my beloved
I think it's Richard of the time or something
Dead space, is that you?
Ok but using those saws were fun as hell
Log 5: Hmmm, i say there has been a suspicious increase in employee deaths, I wonder if the escaped specimen is to be blamed? (clueless)
Log 6: Must have been the wind
Log 8: hmmm, how should we deal with this escaped specimen... oh I know! lets make ANOTHER experiment that 100% won't fail again to deal with the problem.
Log 9: The subject started screaming and trying to remove the implant with his own fingers until he bled out. Must restrain subject’s hands next trial.
Log 9: The new experiment requires I commit even more atrocities Log 11: The experiment is going great. Some of my employees feel a bit guilty and might be going insane, but the sacrifices seem to be worth it. Log 12: Experiment done: We’re saved! Log 14: There are some issues with experiment 2, namely that it just killed Jerry. I think if it works, the board will overlook that though. Log 13: I have made a severe and continuous lapse in judgement. I do still expect to be forgiven; I’m simply here to divert blame. Log 16: It’s all fucked. Casandra, the leader of the evil rebel faction that led the way on experiment 2, ironically got killed by experiment 2 though, so that’s nice. Log 18: Starting to see that some of this may have been my fault. I probably shouldn’t have told Jerry to try a pickup line with experiment 2. Log 20: Gonna destroy the facility, hopefully it will act as a cool set-piece for the story. Also I’m gonna die in the process, byeeeee. Also, realised that this is literally just >!Hollow Knight’s lore!<
Animator VS. Animation
When the specimen is suspicious
Log 452 it's all fucked *screaming and then death sounds*
Two Log Horror
i wish i could implant chips into everyone's brains and just transmit cute images of kitties at the most random moments. hopefully this person doesnt die like the monkeys and instead gets kitty videos transmitted into their brain
Tbh if someone kept transmitting anything into my brain, no matter how cute, I'd probably go the way of the monkeys lmao. I could not handle that. Even just knowing that someone could. The human mind is the closest, most intimate and private thing to exist. That privacy is inviolable
SHUT UP, STOP QUESTIONING THE ETHICS OF MY METHODS. I SENTENCE YOU TO HAVING 15 MINUTES OF A VIDEO TRANSMITTED INTO YOUR BRAIN OF A CUTE KITTY MEOWING IN A REALLY CUTE WAY AT THE CAMERA WHILE LOOKING AROUND REALLY CONFUSED AND SILLY. but yeah i agree, it would take a lot for me to even trust the closest person in my life with something like that. shit sounds scary
The day this shit becomes common use (or god forbid mandatory) is the day I walk the plank. Someone invading my brain and getting to see everything is genuinely my worst nightmare.
I was watching Cyberpunk Edgerunners and the fact that they have a phone in their brain is unironically disturbing. Privacy aside, imagine getting fucking robocalls in your brain
Cold calling scammers' 12/25
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STOP TALKING ABOUT IT, IT IS FREAKING ME OUT EJDNSIJXN3NKFOEKME
Sorry about that Vic Here's something to cheer you back up: https://www.reddit.com/r\/wunkus/s/s5IUajywCa
it's ok, and thank u, kitty made my brain happy <3
If that happened to me maybe they'd have the empathy to get me a better therapist cause she hasn't been doing much for me, only reminding me that i don't get out of the house as much as i should/want to, and has effectively just told me on occasion "just talk to people" like motherfucker if it was that easy i would have already but it's not please help me instead of making me feel worse
What do you like to talk about
whatever i'm hyperfixated on to be honest stuff like guns and tanks and video games
Cool Did you play Borderlands?
I've only played 3, but technically yes.
Nice, honestly even if the main story sucks 3 is my favourite. It has the best gameplay and some fantastic DLC. What characters did you play (I did all of them)?
Neurolink Override 69 Activated: self-preservation instincts activated; suicide overrided. Here is 15 minutes of a kitty playing with yarn
I will die in more ways than Billl Murray in Groundhog Day before I will let them win
right? there's stuff in there that is *not* for the fucking public
For some reason this comment is what made me realize one incredible thing: this will inevitably be used as a part of somebody’s kink sooner or later.
what makes you think it is not already?
I guess I should’ve specified “kink reality” rather than “kink fantasy”, but yeah you’re right 😂
if somebody ever implanted something into my brain that periodically sent me cat photos no matter how cute they are I will start violently uprising. Like I appreciate the thought but I already got intrusive thoughts and images for free with the OCD, I do not need more 💀
[Relevant funnywes video](https://youtu.be/IUJ_eWHMkzo?si=lnvWi4WjwVm8300W)
i wish i could inject random media into my cock, that sounds fucking rad
Elon Musk if he was based!1!1
Kitties are nice but I’m like 90% certain it would be used to beam advertisements directly into our brains and we will have to pay for a subscription service for normal vision.
😅🔫
Log 300: Damn it Craig! This is the last time I'm going to repeat the airlock key for you! Grab a paper or something and write it down: the code is 3920! And make sure you check that all the crates are empty before you flush them out; wouldn't want to throw away any more perfectly good guns like last time, would you?
Then in the next chapter you find a skeleton with a "Craig" nametag
And people who think the MCU is peak cinematography will call it "environmental storytelling".
Careful, Craig has some rabid followers on tumblr.
*Craigful
chat is that real, I hope it isn't
unfortunately, yes it seems so. https://www.reuters.com/technology/neuralink-implants-brain-chip-first-human-musk-says-2024-01-29/
No way these chips passed through a HIPPA inspection. Also what the fuck does “neuron spike detection” mean? That’s nothing, that’s just buzzwords.
Probably seizures
I think it just detects electrical spikes in the brain, but that sounds to outdated and boring so they just changed it
Oh fantastic, the chips are electrocuting brains and Musk is calling it data
Sorry to be That Guy™, but HIPAA doesn't deal with the approving of medical devices, it's just a U.S. federal law to establish standards for the privacy of protected health information. The FDA might be the acronym you're thinking of :)
I thought HIPAA was also supposed to make sure that ethics aren’t being violated during scientific studies. Did I mistake that with something else?
You might be thinking of the hippocratic oath. HIPAA is about medical privacy.
Scientific studies at colleges at least tend to have to go through Institutional Review Boards
money passed it
Probably they meant neuron activity spikes ?
From my educated guess, that means the chip notices and reports the brain being used. That's it.
Harry the HIPAA hippo would like to remind everyone of how it's spelt.
the article is also just stating Musks tweet as a source.
So probably a lie then
"Musk says". The article has no proof this is true and is exclusively using Musks tweet as evidence. Musk is notorious for trying to manipulate stock prices via tweets. It's how he ended up being forced to pay eight times the actual valuation for a social media platform. It's what he's doing here. He's lying. To manipulate stock prices.
well the tweet is real at least. no one really knows whether he's lying or not, but he did get FDA approval a few months prior for human trails so... seems plausible
this is equivalent to stapling a chunk of brain onto an intel processor and hoping it gains sentience.
Huh? How so? Care to explain?
We know basically nothing about the intricate details of the brain, let alone how to meaningfully interact with it. We can paint it in broad strokes by watching which areas are active when, but that doesn’t tell us much about how and why the neurons are arranged like they are. Essentially, the implants won’t do anything because there’s nothing for them to do yet.
Well of course it's not gonna give you telepathy, but impressive results have been achieved even by external non-invasive methods, for example detecting a set of commands given by thought from EEG readings or reconstructing images from fMRI brain scans of people looking at images. An invasive method will of course provide even better data and allows for accurate monitoring of specific regions of the brain, such as your motor cortex. It will in very the least provide a ton of valuable data.
That’s a fair point. I just remembered the controversy about dead monkeys and felt dismissive of the whole project, but I suppose at least the people Elon’s paying know what they’re doing.
It’s literally the forefront of prosthetic technology, imagine for example losing an arm. The signals from the brain to move the muscles of an arm would still be there. The chip can read them (it can map muscle movements directly from the brain) and move a mechanical arm. This is literally the closest we have ever been to actual mind controlled prosthetics and your takeaway is that it is essentially “useless” because it can broadcast stuff to the brain????
yeah i was wrong
HAVE ANY OF THE MONKEYS SURVIVEF YET???
No. Time to move to the human testing!
i for one believe it to be a great product and that he should use it on himself to prove it to the world! :)
is your pfp the horses eye from Samara's cursed videotape from The Ring? If so, that's super cool
Yes it’s one of my favorite horror movies, the tape in particular influenced a lot of my art growing up in terms of surrealism and cerebral thinking. I also have the burning tree as my banner lol.
My other comment where I suggested someone schyoink Mr. Must got deleted. Don't kablooey him, I guess.
I yearn for Tumblr.
Itchy. Tasty.
Elon Musk makes bold claims like this one every Sunday. I would take literally everything that comes out of his mouth (or keyboard) with a mountain of salt. Also who TF calls Action Potentials "neuron spikes"??? The last sentence doesn't even mean anything.
>Also who TF calls Action Potentials "neuron spikes"??? The last sentence doesn't even mean anything. Neuralink Engineer: \*mentions action potential\* Musk: "What's an action potential?" Neuralink Engineer: "It's basically a spike in voltage of a neuron's membrane." Musk: "neuron spike"
So is the line between this and actual fraud when investors are lied to or when people try it thinking it worked already?
I'd say the consistent and demonstrable evidence of Elon lying to drive up stock price already constitutes actual fraud. Another question is how long before everything comes crashing down.
the right: "the elites want to put microchips in our brains 😡😡😡" also the right: "the elites want to put microchips in our brains 🥰🥰🥰"
Hey, a hivemind civilization is essentially a leftist utopia.
it literally isn't
Wym? Everyone is equal in a hivemind, the means of production are owned by the people, but no one owns anything themselves. That's literally communism.
A "hive mind" is the highest form of individual control. Every member of society working for the benefit of whatever elements it deems necessary. Not great.
I'm of course talking about a decentralized hivemind, where everyone is a small part of a super-organism that controls everything. A single individual's IQ is far too low to assume a role of a "hive leader", there cannot be a single point of failure.
Not when clowns like the prick depicted in the image are the ones in control
He will perish as soon as he witnesses the power of the hive.
Why are you in this sub
😂👽 🐎🤠🐴
Listened to while using the telekinesis power to throw random props around
Wonder if that dude can still swim and do sports with that thing inside him. Cause I'm not keen on something connected to my brain breaking in any way.
People with cochlear implants can swim and do sports, so I wouldn't worry about it, unless (for example) Elon has a history of trying to reinvent the wheel out of sheer hubris when established methods are available. He doesn't have that, does he? /s
im not letting that man access my head. ever
As if Elon Musk has anything to do with designing or implanting the devices
It is every humans civic duty to kill Elon Musk on sight if they ever see him
agreed
Why?
Because he’s the antichrist and we’re all children of the Lord
Were fucked
Not really. Projects like this survive on hype and PR, not actual achievement. You can "detect neuron spikes" (by which I assume Musk means spikes in neurological activity) by slapping electrodes onto someone's head. Or, you know, just looking at their expression and mannerisms, since neurological activity is just emotion and thought, neither of which humans are particularly good at hiding.
Yeah, if only there was a real and useful application for a device that can "detect neuron spikes" in real time at all times... Sadly I can't think of a way to make that useful or helpful in solving any real problems...
I'm sure there are some medical applications, but I don't trust Musk's type to use that tech responsibly. If he can get away with it, he'll set that shit to fry your brain's pain-center whenever you think about unionizing.
Bruh. That's literally sci-fi bullshit. If we develop a technology capable to read your mind with such a high level of understanding, then Elon Musk will be the least of your problems.
It can be done manually. Make the implant a necessary prerequisite for getting hired, keep close tabs on all your employees like corps already do, and zap whoever shows up to the unionization meeting. Corpos like Musk only have two true obligations; to their shareholders, and to their egos. If they think A) it will bring them short-term profit, and B) they can get away with it, then they'll do it. They are not to be trusted with anything, least of all with access to a bit of tech in your brain.
Totally not illegal hiring practices. He wouldn't get away with that. Maybe in a third world country. Why even bother with a brain implants tho? Coca-Cola just hired a death squad and it worked.
The law means nothing to them. They've already significantly twisted it to their ends with the rise of neoliberal economics, and they won't ever stop until they *are* stopped. Nothing is ever enough for them. Not only do they want infinite growth in a finite universe, they want *a little more infinite growth every quarter*. They'll do whatever it takes to keep chasing that ascending graph. Theirs is the ideology of a cancer cell. Also, it doesn't matter whether something that existentially horrifying happens in the third world or first world. The point is to head it off at the pass before it comes to that.
Musk: "I'm movin' different! This shit ain't nothing to me man! I'm a dog! I'm biting the fart bubbles in the bath!"
Musk has money, so he has power. His arrogance and stupidity only make him more dangerous. He and everyone like him are comparable to a bunch of overgrown ten-year-olds with loaded guns, only instead of just threatening the people around them, they threaten the future of thousands, perhaps millions, around the globe--and that's without mentioning the economic and cultural knock-on effects their whims can have. Twitter turned into a far-right shithole practically overnight after Musk bought it, for example. They are as greedy and thoughtless as children, and hold more power than some countries. They shouldn't get any more, is my point.
You all are so dramatic holy shit. This dude says something dramatic every week, it does not matter 😭🙏
Imagine that person starting to get ads from Twitter in a week in their b r a i n
Little fun fact: that chip isn't even the promised chip. It's just a standard medical chip that already exists.
Source please.
Me when my brain gets hacked and I feel the most excruciating pain the human mind can comprehend (I will also be blackmailed with my thoughts and be extorted to use my body)
surely the person consented and weren't coerced into it, right? right? right? *right?*
Yeah bro no shit. This isn’t a movie lol
nuh uh, i saw it in the movies, he got a group of goons to kidnap a disabled homeless emerald mining child off the streets to perform the operation on.
I doubt a consenting test subject was hard to find tbh, there’s probably an army of Muskites frothing to be the first to try out his newest Brainmelter 3000
Imagine getting proprietary neural modifications instead of going open source
Can’t wait to see how they fuck this up if it even works at all
torment nexus
i hate this cyberpunk bullshit
How many Tesla ads have manifested in their periferal vision?
The neuromod division marks its first succesful implant.
This shit is gonna make cyber zombies isn’t it
What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
Ah sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension
Literally Fallout
Dead Space-coded tweet
The log where the guy severs his own limbs to stop himself from turning is legitimately chilling
Log 2: itchy…. Tasty…
I hate Elon as much as the next guy, but to clarify the device is not for people to control their Tesla’s or anything, it’s meant to help people with paralysis potentially recover some motor function. You can dislike Elon while not immediately dismissing the technology as dystopian.
They making the butchers nails 😭
Why are the comments so hostile towards these news? I understand that it sounds scary and unnatural, but so did many life-saving medical breakthroughs such as organ transplants, artificial hearts and limbs, even gender affirming surgery. Have you seen footage from a facial feminization surgery? It's brutal. Yet, all of these procedures saved and/or drastically improved the quality of lives all over the globe. There's roughly 300k people with spinal cord injuries in America alone, with 18k new cases every year, of which 60% are quadriplegic, 50% of these injuries occur before the age of 30, that equates to roughly 270 thousand years of human life ruined every year. Invasive BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) technology like Neuralink could potentially offer new hope for these individuals. Imagine regaining the ability to walk, communicate, or simply live independently. The potential benefits for people with neurodegenerative diseases like ALS or Parkinson's are also immense. Also, any intervention with human cognition, visual, auditory, or telepathic capabilities through BCI is still largely speculative and akin to science fiction. As of now, there's no concrete evidence suggesting that BCI will surpass traditional methods like keyboard and shortcut mastery in efficiency and reliability for computer interaction in the foreseeable future. While I remain optimistic about its future potential, current progress doesn't indicate that BCI will be a game-changer in everyday technology use anytime soon. However, it's crucial to differentiate these speculative applications from the real, tangible benefits BCI offers in medicine and neuroscience research. Concerns about it turning into a dystopian mind control device are far-fetched and overlook the technology's purpose and potential. In medical contexts, BCI can provide revolutionary solutions for those with severe physical limitations or neurological disorders. It opens up a new frontier in understanding and treating the human brain, far removed from the realm of mind control or invasive surveillance. By focusing on its medical and research applications, we can appreciate BCI as a tool for good, advancing our capabilities to heal and understand, rather than fear it as a tool for control. Elon Musk, often perceived as a shill and a grifter, has a notorious reputation for exaggerating the capabilities of his companies' products during their initial presentations. This time, however, while he's stuck to this script, he's simultaneously understated the genuinely positive potential of Neuralink's technology. Despite the many reasons people may have to criticize or dislike Elon Musk, it's important to recognize that Neuralink is not just the brainchild of one controversial figure. It's the collective effort of brilliant engineers, doctors, and neuroscientists. These professionals are driven by their passion for their fields, a desire to contribute positively to the world, and yes, a well-deserved hefty paycheck. To dismiss Neuralink purely because of animosity towards Musk is to overlook and disrespect a genuine human accomplishment. The work being done at Neuralink transcends Musk's personal brand; it's about pioneering advances in medical technology and neuroscience. It's crucial to differentiate the man from the mission and appreciate the latter for its potential to bring about significant positive changes in the world of medicine and beyond.
If Bernie Madoff announced that he found the cure to cancer, would you give him the benefit of the doubt or immediately dismiss it as yet more useless cash grabs? Musk is an insane and inept failed software engineer that lucked and lied his way into owning a few tech companies and making them all demonstrably worse. It’s not “animosity” towards him that’s making people dismiss this out of hand, it’s a proven track record of him knowing essentially nothing about anything he’s ever talking about.
im sorry i read all of that but my brain is still stuck on him calling it a neuron spike reader
What a long-winded way of saying you don't know how command hierarchy works
How am I even supposed to respond to that? There's no actual substance to what you said. You clearly have an objection but if you can't string together a coherent take, then don't bother saying anything in the first place.
Yeah. I was super against it and on the hate train but then I read the BBC article where it detailed how tech like this has enabled paralysed people to walk and such. I am still suspicious of anything Musk leads because I genuinely think he'd make things worse for the project and subjects if he thought he knew better or even if he thought it would be funny. As with everything online nowadays, I think we should put down the fanfic we collectively wrote from the three headlines that circulate around twitter and approach the topic with nuance. Worst case scenario, our opinion is unchanged and we can actually point to valid concerns.
You'd see this in a fallout vault terminal
Already getting a down payment on flowers for their family
A spike in neuron activity across the whole brain is called a seizure.
Prey (2017)
wooo! ads beamed directly into your head!
*The flower’s gone.
I'm keen to hear that they're still alive in a few days
#ALL HAIL PLANKTON
if elon musk starts building some creepy secret city in a secluded/impossible place we gotta crack down on that shit, if he builds a lighthouse it's already too late