Elon wants to make more money. One of the ways he can envision making more money is selling brain implants and the procedure to install them
Let’s give him a chip and watch for the next 5+ years how it goes, then decide how to go on.
Maybe that’s what we watched for the last 5 years?
Ah, that explains it. ;-p
Not a chance.
If he doesn’t go first no nation should allow it. Dude is a fraud.
Are you a bot?
No, you?
I don’t have a “bot account” indicator, so … no. Though I have been confused for one.
Sorry, no idea why it says that but I’m pretty new to lemmy so it’s probably something I did, I’ll look into it
Sorry I snapped at you, being mistaken for ai or bots is a sore spot for me
I mean I can certainly understand where the confusion may have come from.
Oh that’s weird, no idea, thanks 🤣
Yeah skimming it very briefly, it looks like your instance doesn’t even show bot indicators, so, no way you could’ve known really. But there should be a button to turn it off somewhere in your user settings, probably down near the bottom.
He should be an example and do it himself.
Yeah that’s not going to happen.
How crazy would it be tho if we found out he really was an early adopter, had one put it in a decade ago, and that’s why he’s so bat shit now?
Did kanye west get one too?
We can dream
Not if that brain chip malfunctions.
How would that be worse than the infant idiot we deal with now?
He absolutely will. Granted it’ll be after all the little kinks like meningitis, aluminum poisoning, spontaneous ignition, malicious hacking, eternal nightmare states, blindness, cancer, and cluster headaches are ironed out. 90% death rate, babyyy
He should do the same with “flying to Mars” first.
Both at the same time
Just like colonization of Mars. He can go first, with or without others
Dude can’t build cars that don’t fall apart when they get wet, and can’t build a truck that doesn’t fall apart for uh, existing, and we’re supposed to let him stick stuff in our brains?
No, thanks, but no.
Or rocket launch pads that don’t break the rocket launching/get destroyed on launch
I ignored SpaceX because as far as things go, they’re pretty successful. Rockets blowing up and crashing during testing is pretty much just… a thing rockets do.
(And Shotwell is in charge far more than Spaceman Musk.)
It’s more the issues and failures happen a lot more as soon as musk gets involved. Like the starship launchpad failure
we’re supposed to let him
He won’t ask you.
Why are you saying “No, thanks, but no” when you could be saying “FUCK NO! GET OUTTA HERE WITH THE GARBAGE!”
You can even add a jersy accient if you want to be extra fun in your telling elon to fuck off.
I’d prefer a more New Yorker ‘HEY! My brain is working fine over here!’, personally.
AY! I’M THINKIN’ 'ERE!!!
Let’s not forget an important distinction here. This man is not making any of these things, and he isn’t capable of making them. But, he is capable of directly and indirectly impacting the people who are capable of making them negatively enough that we get utter failures like the cybertruck.
Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.
Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.
Banks should have listened to this when he wanted a loan to buy twitter.
Oh for sure: Musk can barely make a shitpost on Twitter, let alone actually do anything else.
But, conversely, he’s in a position to dictate culture and policy and direction and that’s led to shitty cars and whatever the fuck is going on at Twitter.
Aaaand yes, past performance is not a predictor for future outcomes, but uh, somehow I don’t think it’s irrelevant either.
Also important:
This tech has been around for about 25 years already, first success was 1998…
Johnny received his implants in March 1998. During a 12-hour operation, Bakay inserted the electrodes, housed in two glass cones, into the area of Johnny’s cortex that controls left-hand movement. Once the cones were implanted, the doctors believed that axons – parts of the brain cell that transmit electrical impulses – would grow through them. When an impulse passed along an axon, it would be intercepted by tiny gold contacts and transmitted through the electrodes. ‘‘Axons are really like telephone lines,’’ Kennedy explains. ‘‘We’re just diverting the lines and eavesdropping on the call.’’
The hope was that by imagining he was moving his paralyzed left hand, Johnny would cause an increase in electrical impulses passing among the neurons there. These impulses could then be transmitted by the implanted electrodes to a receiver placed on Johnny’s pillow, and from there, the analog brain signals could be translated into digital commands that Johnny’s computer could understand. In theory, by controlling the frequency with which the neurons in his motor cortex fire, Johnny could move a cursor up or down, left or right on his screen.
Musk is just paying people to miniaturize existing tech and is using marketing to make people believe he’s personally inventing it
The bad part is his absolute disregard for basic lab safety and pretty much any other regulation.
It’s like how SpaceX doesn’t care how many rockets explode, Musk probably views early adaptors as sacrificial lambs.
the strategy of sacrifical ginney pigs is good for progress, bad for ethics.
Cool, he can want whatever he wants, but I’m certainly not going to be one of them.
Bold of you to assume you’ll still have a choice.
I want to implant Elon with 00 buck
I bet this evil fuck has all kinds of patents around this idea so when someone who isn’t a psychopath James Bond villain wants to help people with disabilities by developing a similar device…they won’t be able to.
Another weird thing that Conservatives want to do.
While complaining that “the left” are trying to inject tracking chips into our bodies.
Many of their conspiracy theories are distractions from the very real and very scary conspiracies they’re actually engaged in
I do love this. They worry about Bill gates doing this, a guy who is primarily focused on putting toilets in Africa… When an electric car guy (they used to hate electric cars) wants to literally microchip peoples brains but also gives mega money and a platform to the GOP, he’s great, no conspiracy theories to be found here.
Lol, hard FUCKING pass
Downvote because I don’t give a flying fuck what Musk wants and random shit about musk is not technology
He shoulda gone first 🧠🔫
can we implant them all in elon instead
Straight up his ass, via a boot?
Godspeed to all the brain dead idiots who will sign up for this, and will become even more literally brain dead after getting the implant.
