[siliconangle.com]


After years of trials with monkeys, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface start-up Neuralink Corp., says it’s now looking for human volunteers to take part in a new set of trials.

Since the company got off the ground in 2017, the mission has been to achieve “symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” First, the symbiosis was practiced on monkeys, which, despite seeing some promising results, elicited criticism from animal rights activists. That criticism is ongoing, but the outcome could mean paralyzed people gaining control over their bodies once again.

Musk’s company recently received the green light from the Food and Drug Administration to start human trials after Neuralink vowed to give severely disabled people back their “full body functionality” or perhaps give a congenitally blind person the power of sight.

The FDA approval was a significant win for Neuralink, whose trials will mean volunteers who will have to undergo invasive brain surgery. At the time, the company struggled to gain FDA approval, calling the eventual win “an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people.”

The Link, a tiny implant that will process and translate a person’s neural signals, will be connected to a series of very small threads that will be inserted into the volunteers’ brains. It’s hoped from there, the person will be able to control a computer or other devices. The system is hailed as a possible victory over nature with technology if, indeed, it is successful.

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I thought about it when they contacted me, but then I remembered Muskie's rocket developing methodology of mistakes being used as teachable moments.

Hard pass.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Only if they guarantee me a “blue pill” experience with steak. And dinner with Trinity.



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This is how the Borg began.

Not even 20 years down the road when it actually works.

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Embarassing myself on the Internet since 1978.

Tesla can't make autopilot reliable, Starship still blows up, Starlink can be shut off remotely if Musk wants.

And he wants me to trust him with my brain?

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late

Think I'll hold off for now...

[www.wired.com]

I am Locutus of X. Your life as you know it, now ceases to exist. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will now serve us, we are the Musk. Resistance is futile.

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All I ever really needed to know, I learned from watching Star Trek.

I gotta wonder who at the FDA is driving around in a new high-end Tesla and has a suddenly bulging bank account.

I hear Elon has plenty of kids.

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So Musk lied and misrepresented the facts, I'm shocked! /s

Geez, he tortures monkeys, too?

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals

I'll get one after Musk has had one for 15 years.

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In tha 360. MRF User Map

He has 11 kids, think he might spare a couple for research?

Maybe after Elon goes into space on one of his rockets.

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