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Neuralink Eyes Fundraise at $8.5B Valuation

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Re: Neuralink Eyes Fundraise at $8.5B Valuation

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Post by 255kb »

Zambyte wrote: post #2

It's insanity that a company literally developing mind control and mind reading (or as they sanitize it: bidirectional brain-computer interface) hasn't been shut down yet, but here we are.

I just watched the first Black Mirror episode (latest season). While I'm all for science and progress, I don't see a world where you don't pay a subscription for your brain to work.

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Post by ncr100 »

Zambyte wrote: post #2

It's insanity that a company literally developing mind control and mind reading (or as they sanitize it: bidirectional brain-computer interface) hasn't been shut down yet, but here we are.

Jokingly I assume this is how he controls his population once on Mars, for life.

Re: Neuralink Eyes Fundraise at $8.5B Valuation

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Post by mapkkk »

standardly wrote: post #4

I wish the worst for this company! May they receive extreme public backlash and never secure the funding they need, please god

I’m pretty out of the loop on this one - could I ask you to chime in why you feel so strongly about Neuralink? I knew they were ethicaly in the gray area what with the test animal living conditions etc., but I don’t know much beyond that.

In the long term (if the do have a long term, I expect them to fail due to technical reasons i.e. fibrosis around electrodes not being a solved problem)

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Post by bboygravity »

mapkkk wrote: post #6
standardly wrote: post #4

I wish the worst for this company! May they receive extreme public backlash and never secure the funding they need, please god

I’m pretty out of the loop on this one - could I ask you to chime in why you feel so strongly about Neuralink? I knew they were ethicaly in the gray area what with the test animal living conditions etc., but I don’t know much beyond that. In the long term (if the do have a long term, I expect them to fail due to technical reasons i.e. fibrosis around electrodes not being a solved problem)

Test animal living conditions?!

Last I checked they where probably treating their animals the best out any research lab world wide?

Re: Neuralink Eyes Fundraise at $8.5B Valuation

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Post by bboygravity »

Zambyte wrote: post #2

It's insanity that a company literally developing mind control and mind reading (or as they sanitize it: bidirectional brain-computer interface) hasn't been shut down yet, but here we are.

Can you explain why?

I get that you can do bad things with it, but that goes for anything that requires brain surgery? Why is this inherently undoubtedly bad and evil?

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Post by kelseyfrog »

bboygravity wrote: post #8
Zambyte wrote: post #2

It's insanity that a company literally developing mind control and mind reading (or as they sanitize it: bidirectional brain-computer interface) hasn't been shut down yet, but here we are.

Can you explain why? I get that you can do bad things with it, but that goes for anything that requires brain surgery? Why is this inherently undoubtedly bad and evil?

There is a market for advertising-subsidized neural implants.

Think of the profit potential of being able to directly influence consumer brains patterns. It's a multi-trillion dollar industry, minimum.

The fear isn't that it's an option; It's creating a world where you can't afford not to. Much like how modern life requires internet participation, the idea of a potential world that requires neural implant participation and the economic incentives described above is viscerally horrific.

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