I don't care who makes it I'm not putting absolutely proprietary software in my brain
What's the worst that could happen?
I don't understand owning a computer that you don't fully control but using prosthetics that can be remotely disabled? This is why we need true open source GPL brain implants.
This isn’t a prosthetic that was remotely disabled, this is failing hardware that doesn’t have support from the original company which is in the process of going bankrupt.
I get where you’re coming from, and agree. Prosthesis and health devices should absolutely not be remotely controllable by a company. But you can’t really help a company shutting down.
And I highly doubt there are any open source implants which help sure blindness that are ready for prime time.
But still, if the technology is open, then someone may design some compatible replacement hardware. Imagine some makers community rig a replacement for the blind without carrying about profitability.
That’s one aspect, absolutely.
The other side of that coin though, is if you really want random people tinkering with things directly attached to your body, without having a proper way to test beforehand?
These types of devices need to go through testing before they reach human trials for a reason. While I’m happy to trust security of data and even control of my while home to FOSS communities, I honestly don’t know that I’d trust anonymous individuals online with no skin in the game with my literal body.
Yeah, like this is technology I've wanted since I was a kid, the stuff I wish people were talking about when they say VR, instead of screens you wear on your head and motion-detection controllers. Video games are a lot better when they are dynamic and current VR tech can't really do that yet.
But that said, I'll die never experiencing that before trusting anything Elon Musk is involved with.
What happens if your brain implant is like a phone, and stops getting updates after 2 or so years? That'd suck really bad.
Then I'm jailbreaking my brain implant and installing Linux on it
The bootloaders gonna be locked.
It can only stay locked for so long
Careful not to brick your brain implant.
Can it run Doom?
That's all it runs.
What if it's FOSS
Then it wouldn't be absolutely proprietary
Was there not some issues with the animal trials last year or am I misremembering?
Nah, your implant should have deleted any record of that happening.
Oh, and don’t worry about calling your lawyer about medical malpractice or anything; after all, we’ve disabled your speech center.
Didn't the animal tests lead to pretty bad deaths? And wasn't that less than a year ago? I can't imagine this going well.
Plus there was the blind-tech that was revealed not too long ago where now that they're bankrupt the group is slowly going blind and worse. I feel like none of this is going to end well.
Lots of them, yes.
That poor bastard.
Poor is probably what led to it
In Elon’s eyes he’s still testing on animals.
...Which he is.
(insert Cave Johnson quote here)
Can't wait to have a stroke because someone put a cryptomining virus on my brainchip.
God speed, guinea pig.
Install this proprietary app from Google Play or App Store on your Google Android or Apple iPhone certified device to access your stored memories.
Oops, looks like we had a security flaw and some malware has removed all your memories!
Sorry about that, we've given you free subscription to our Neuralink AI software for 1 year to make up for it.
They can have my memories for like a $.99 app store credit.
at least the billionaire sub moron believed in his product enough to go down with it.
does this coward have the guts to use his own crap?
If he hasn't gotten an implant when it moves beyond solving medical problems to being a consumer device that an everyday person would be able to buy, that'd be really telling.
But until then that's not how it works. They need approval to do trials on very specific things, such as working with quadriplegics.
We're probably decades away from non trials for only medical purposes.
Pump the stocks with buzzwords!
Oh, that's why he's been behaving this way.
Well if musk said it...
I don't believe it.
I hope he himself has it in him. Based on his progressing psychosis it is in his head for some time now.
Watch. It will end up being Alec Baldwin.
Elon Musk saw the shitter episode of South Park, and was inspired by it. He hatched a plan. He needed a company working on brain computer interface technology, and Twitter to get renamed shitter. Nuerolink was easy to find, but Shitter was troublesome. He bought twitter, then in what only could be called by Elon Musk some sort of brilliance, thought he could tank the sites reputation so hard and give it a stupid brand that people would roll their eyes and switch to calling it "shitter."
Once that had taken place, he would be able to develop the technology, and finally release a platform that gave anyone the ability to publicly broadcast all their thoughts without a filter. And he would be loved for it
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