I don't get what everyone is so upset about. When I try to implant things in a monkey's brain, the monkey dies all of the time, not just often.
I think I started coming here in 2008, at roughly the same time I started at 11d (and Crooked Timber).
Re Neuralink, Musk is good at throwing attention-getting lies out to take away the discursive space from whatever setback or trouble he's in. Back in the Obama era he lied about Tesla being approved for an ARRA grant, and it acted as sort of a bridge loan by boosting the stock price. This time, candidate 1, candidate 2.
So there isn't really someone out there with a brain implant connected to Elon Musk's index finger?
Abraham Lincoln, vampire slayer?
Hyperactive people killing time posting different usages of "link" or things that sound like "link"?
XML linking language, aka XLink?
Throwing you all in the clink.
dink-dink, dink dink dink DINK DINK DINK. ♫
THERE'S NO 'L' IN DINK
It would be cool if Linksys sold custom Slinkys as Linksys swag.
Malcolm Gladwell's seminal work on doing whatever the fuck seems right at the time, Blink?
Was the person that had Neuralink installed in their brain informed? I'm just wondering, because I'm feeling kind of odd today.
I was texting about bathroom redesign ideas to my mom and she made the memorable typo "double dink".
Was the person that had Neuralink installed in their brain informed?
Were they informed first, then had the information taken away by Neuralink?
Were they not informed until Neurlink itself informed them after installation?
Was it like a terms of service? "Continued use of your brain constitutes agreement with these terms. You are free to claw the chip out at any time."
29: "Made for Love" was a fun exploration of that theme in a two-season TV series. Musk-like billionaire implants a chip into his unhappy wife.
Your mind is important to us, and may be monitored for quality assurance purposes.
Gates vs. Musk:
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1afqjrh/microchip_bros/
Oh, this thread came and went while I was buried in work! Another candidate for "what bad news is this covering up?"
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/neuralink-was-fined-violating-hazardous-material-transport-rules-docs-show-reuters
The hazmat transport doesn't seem as serious to me as the infectious primate tissue failure.
Also, I've been slightly haunted by this story where an implant restored some vision to recipients, then the company went bankrupt, and now they have unsupported implants that are at end of life and failing, but it would be riskier to remove than to just leave them and oh boy, what bad stuff would happen with more significant implants?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete