An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah the deaths from organ transplants, the risky operations performed as a last ditch effort to save patients who would otherwise die from incurable organ failure, definitely justifies killing 1500 monkeys to allow people to tweet by thinking.

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          So, what’s the point en neuralink that justifies killing monkeys and now a few humans? It’s that important to bring us a few steps forward into another dystopia?

          • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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            Short term: giving people with certain disabilities control over their bodies. Things like allowing paralysed people the ability to move, or giving sight to the blind, etc. Long term: changing the way we communicate with computers and each other.

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      A transplanted organ is considered a morbid condition in and of itself. The patient is dying, just less quickly than without the transplant.

      I’d think this might have improved with cloned organs, but I don’t think those are common enough to tell.

      Billionaires do not seem ro mind when people die for their vanity projects, and Musk is pushing this one quickly.