You beat me to it. 
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Trepanation? I need that like a hole in the head!
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I dunno - that seems almost like an IQ version of Woody Allen’s plan in Casino Royal.
It might be Elon’s only hope of being the smartest man in the world
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We’re on NEXTDOOR, a neighborhood info sharing website through which we learned a few days ago that another Tesla burned down to the ground, and this time right outside the owners’ garage. Being inside their house, the owners were unaware of the event until fire trucks showed up. Their luck only extended to parking their Tesla outside – and not inside – their garage. I wasn’t aware that Teslas can spontaneously catch fire while not being operated. At least the local firehouse got a bit of practice in when faced with Muskmobiles.
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Exactly. That’s how he’ll make implantees believe that his f’ugly truck is gorgeous…and that his pyromaniac-friendly rides are just super-duper.
They’ll get you through the software.
Just the thought of that should make their heads explode.
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Sure, but hardware is the first step, or whatever you think the software is doing is irrelevant. In any event, we’re nowhere near the state where this would be useful or appropriate for most folks.
My biggest comfort is that the fact that these would be medical devices would add a ton of scrutiny to anything going on as time goes on, presuming you trust anything at all of course.
But again, this is going to happen eventually; the right thing to do is to make sure that the legal and standards framework around it is aggressive enough to prevent Capitalism from doing its thing.
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(I knew I should have slapped a winky-eye on that post.)
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hey the phones were free. who was going to say no?
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Only the obscenely wealthy will try it, right? Okay.
Mr von Doom here has the ahem right idea:
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The ad-supported version will still be free.
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Ahhh, my bad.
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So, it turns you into a Republican? Diabolical!
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A clueless latecomer has entered the discussion: me.
I’ve avoided the omnipresent scent of Musk as best I can, but the downside is that I don’t know about all his crazy projects, like this one. A chip implanted in the brain, okay. But what exactly is this chip supposed to do there? I read the linked articles and after the robot surgeon implants the chip and ties it into the brain things become rather vague. There’s a lot of handwaving and suddenly we’re into the far future connecting our brains to the internet. What precisely is Musk’s chip supposed to accomplish? Unlock your Tesla remotely so you won’t be too close when it blows up? Access your bank account so you can pay for groceries by mind power? Receive Musk’s tweets telepathically? Or is it just a standard 666 chip like the one in your dog that identifies you and reports your location to the Master?
It seems to this bear of little brain that whenever people start talking about this project they jump several innovations ahead without mapping out how they’ll get from here to there. Sort of like Musk’s promises of self-driving cars. What is the very first thing Musk intends to do with the very first version of his new toy?
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You know… science stuff! Heads up display! Enhancements galore! Make smerter menz! Harder! Better! Faster! Stronger! Just look at Hershel Walker!
But probably just act like a form of lobotomy…
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I would quite like one of those, the chip not so much.
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You pretty much have it right there. The implants themselves don’t do much at all, allowing some signalling that can be interpreted by software and turned into useful input.
The plan seems to be “get these into heads so we have data, then we will feed that data into machine learning systems and THOSE wiil figure out what the signals mean and that will make it so that anything your brain can think will be turned into something the AI can understand”
I look forward to having the type of software that allows midjourney to take my input and spit out four very different interpretations of my thought (none of them really what I wanted) and have this be the way I interface with all computers /s
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For a moment I thought you were replying to the last line of @Mindysan33 's post above you…because I often feel like that these days myself
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Coffee isn’t doing the trick today but I’m not quite that far off my game.
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