Sadly, he’s a fully human dipshit bent on civilization’s destruction…
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Dammit, I need to find the one I made a while ago. It’s that, but with some antenna coming out the head.
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Some comments from a biologist.
Do you realize how meaningless that is? I’ve jammed steel pins into a cockroach’s butt and gotten “promising neuron spike detection”. I’ve stuck sharpened tungsten wires into a zebrafish’s hindbrain and gotten “promising neuron spike detection”. This is a trivial accomplishment. Living brains are big sparking balls of continuous electrical activity, it’d be stunning if you put a wire in one and couldn’t get some measure of current.
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The brain moves in the head, but the implant doesn’t move relative to the surface of the brain. For early implants in monkeys this meant that every time the brain moved, the electrodes moved through tissue killing brain cells. As such, it was rare for implants to still be recording anything after a couple months because the electrodes were surrounded by scar tissue and dead cells.
A lot of work has gone into developing thinner, flexible electrodes that move with the brain to reduce this problem. Now, well implanted electrode arrays can still be recording some of the original neurons after more than a year.
Any electrodes implanted into a brain, though, will eventually be covered in scar tissue and no longer record any neural activity. The most danerous part of an implant isn’t having wires in your head, it’s opening up the head to put them in. And the risks are just as high to open the head to remove it. We are still a long way from developing a safe chronic implant that can last anywhere near a human lifespan.
But maybe more to the point, even if we could do that today, these sorts of implants would never be capable of any of the sort of “telepathy” bullshit claims Musk makes. So this is either an outright lie that they are doing human trials or risking people’s health for an empty PR stunt
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Ha! I finally know where this GIF is from! Thanks!
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I don’t think the CPC speaks communist any more. They are fluent in authoritarian crony capitalism though, and most people can’t seem to tell the difference.
It’s also why your translation is identical to what EM excretes on Xitter.
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If you have an infinite amount, then at least one of them will do everything that EM claims to have done, except better.
Sigh… i kind of think he wants to be a bond villain.
He has a secret base under a major metro area via the aborted boring boring company… the “hyperloop” was never a real plan.
Goes around starting his own satellite arrays for communication (and potential focused solar death lasers)
The list goes on
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the businessman said the first Neuralink product was called Telepathy.
Of f…ing course it is! I don’t know how anyone believes anything from the guy who keeps giving grandiose names to things other people have done before but not marketed like that. Because why would they? It would be a lie.
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Charles Stross makes a good argument that Bond villains would just be businessmen these days.
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My background is in civil engineering. For decades now, every time I see secret lairs and such I can’t help thinking about how this could be built and how long it would take and how much it might cost. And then those lairs are full of clever scientists and highly marketable hyper technology that must have cost a pretty penny…
And then I shout at the supervillain mastermind, you idiot, you have all those resources and you use them to blackmail countries like Great Britain for a handful of diamonds or other shiny stuff? What the hell is wrong with you? (Besides the obvious megalomania, but that hardly hurts a career, now does it.)
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Malign Hypercognition Disorder.
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Well we know how much Dr. No’s fancy aquarium window cost.
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OR maybe Malignant Hypercognition Disorder in Musk’s instance.
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