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Well yeah fuck that guy and this program and it's implications, but this particular issue doesn't sound too unexpected considering the scope of the procedure.
I'm all for the science, but you know this is going to be some directly streamed ads hellspace we'll never escape from if it comes to fruition.
Here's a good rule for this sort of thing to move forward: No implants before right to privacy and freedom from advertising.
Honestly I agree. I don't think Elon Musk has demonstrated the good judgement that means a company he's in charge of should be in there fuckin with people's brains, but reading the article it sounds pretty frickin cool what they're doing. I hope it works out and good things come out of it.
Understatement of the century right here.
I'll wait for Gabe Newell's version, since it seems pretty clear to me that's where Musk got the idea.
How in the WORLD had I not heard of this
Can't wait for FOSS brain implants, it would still be hellish but a fun kind of hellish.
I want someone like Linus Torvalds to verbally abuse someone for not understanding basic computational neuroscience.
Paging Dr. Allcome!
No implants until you own it, and can control what interacts with it.
I'm the kind of person who reads the source code of software I'm using at least some of the time (and modifies it on occasion), but I'm no genius and not qualified to notice a well-hidden backdoor or potentially fatal software bug - let alone issues with the design, construction or implantation of the hardware. I would never ever trust a brain implant or any device that interfaces directly with my brain.
I'd prefer no implants ever if I can help it. I'd only be fine with one if it saved my life. Otherwise, there are just too many things that can go wrong with it in ways our current technology can't. You can go off-grid now if you get sick of tech, but that becomes infinitely harder if you have a chip in your brain