Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

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    10 months ago

    This is a publicity stunt to get more funding. They are going to get some volunteers, but they won’t ever get the implants. Neuralink will just keep delaying the procedure by a year and then cancel it once the public stops paying attention.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t see Neuralink taking the legal risk, regardless of what the FDA says. The approval is part of the publicity stunt IMO.

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          10 months ago

          I don’t think they’d care about the legal risk from people who’d sign up. However it’d be pretty bad publicity having them all die

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            10 months ago

            Hey now, that’s not fair. Some of them might just end up paralyzed or brain dead.

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      10 months ago

      I think you are hating simply because musk, they have FDA approval. People are going to get this implant in their brain, and if I remember I’ll come back here and send you a message that you were wrong when it happens.

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        10 months ago

        Did you see the article about what they did to those monkeys?

        Any human that allows this half-baked shit near them in it’s current state should be terrified.

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        10 months ago

        FDA approval ain’t evidence that something is safe. See the recent approvals for anti-Alzheimers meds that have a terrible side-effect to benefit ratio.

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        10 months ago

        So you’re worried the implant will affect your memory. Got it.

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          10 months ago

          I’m not disabled, so I can’t even if I wanted to. I don’t want to either, I’m not stupid