“Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future” by Tim Urban convinced me that neural laces and their development is feasible, probable and imminently worthwhile. It made it clear that visionaries like Musk seem like total lunatics unless you break problems down into their absolute atomic principles. His drawings are also really funny. He blows the brain up to the size of Madison Square Garden and shows that at this scale…
Musk is the type of person you should be prepared to simultaneously deride but also learn from. The jackassery he’s up to now, and the abuse he inflicts on his workers everywhere, coexist with the fact that he single handedly transformed the space industry and accelerated EV adoption and made inroads in BCI.
There are also then these self contradictory Elon hit pieces where they’ll simultaneously say he’s not responsible for the success of any of these companies, but also smart enough to invent hyper loop and boring company because he has an agenda to derail californias public transport infrastructure. Pick a side people!