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.

Anyone getting this shit will die just like every single fucking monkey test subject. If they don’t die, their suffering will be unbearable

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

Go on Elon, show us how it’s done and take the first one

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.

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.

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

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.

There are few companies products I want in my body less than from anything that Musk is involved in.

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.

So Elon is the first one to get one, right? What do you mean, he doesn't want one?

Yeah bruh fuck everything about this.

Uhhh after you Elon

I can't wait to get X advertising streamed directly into my dreams.

I'm sure there's tons of Muskrat fans who'd love one but unfortunately they don't have brains.

Let’s test it on the Elongate Muskrat first

Musk should be the first.

Can't wait for them to start beaming ads directly into our brains

Sounds like a great idea, and I’m sure it will work just as well as Tesla FSD. Cost a lot of money and get people killed.

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

Just wait until TwittX is a mandatory app on the link, lol.

Let him be the first patient.

No paywall: https://archive.is/yN8gL

That is a fascinating read, I had no idea how far multiple companies have already gotten on neural impulse translations and practical implementation.

Is it, though?

My pop-corn is ready, any time now ^^

I know there was a lot of ableist bigotry involved and it was problematic for even more reasons but...

Them mofos are paying for darwin awards.

The US FDA is a captured organization. This operation won't even pass a research level ethics commitee.

Uhhhhhhhhhh

There’s so much we don’t know about the brain, I can’t see implants being anywhere close to a success until the brain is significantly better understood