Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by danielmorozoff » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 9:12 AM UTC

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed
fortune.com

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Post by NitpickLawyer » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 9:18 AM UTC

There is a great podcast with the entire team + Noland on yt. It is ~ 8h long, but IMO it's worth the time. You get to hear things from the perspective of the chief brain surgeon, hardware team, software team, and of course Noland himself. I really recommend it, to get a better understanding of what's possible, what they had to do to get there, and how impactful this kind of research is for people with terrible conditions.

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Post by explodes » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 12:23 PM UTC

This tech is incredible but it will be very divisive. Leadership of the current leading company notwithstanding, novel implants such as pacemakers have also undergone a stage of social caution that I would very much expect to surface for brain-interface devices as well, if not more fervently due to an increasing mistrust in technology's utility in our lives.

I am personally hopeful for this technology. I know it will be able to improve the lives of loved ones who both need and want it. I am also afraid of a technology that can decide my thoughts one way or another...

That said, I'll take two.

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Post by idiomat9000 » Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 1:15 PM UTC

I did not see any breakthroughs in neural link patents. Have they solved neural scaring?

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Post by ceedan » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

idiomat9000 wrote: post #4

I did not see any breakthroughs in neural link patents. Have they solved neural scaring?

Not sure but they did manage to make the patients say that it had changed their lives. :smirk:

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Post by csours » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

idiomat9000 wrote: post #4

I did not see any breakthroughs in neural link patents. Have they solved neural scaring?

Trade secrets?

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Post by webdevver » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

so this is like MCP but for neurons?

can they wire up the neurons that control ear twitch muscles to something useful e.g. "Open terminal" shortcut?

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Post by femiagbabiaka » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 5:23 PM UTC

Have there been any reviews by independent experts? This reads like a promo piece, in particular I'm not sure why the fluff bits about Musk "being a regular guy" are relevant. Most of the linked sources are either other Fortune puff pieces or Neuralink press releases.

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Post by cromulent » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

Friends with Parkinson's with neural implants anecdotally report great results, but of course with rather coarse tech. There seems to be lots of future potential.

https://www.parkinson.org/living-with-parkinsons/treatment/s...

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Post by bboygravity » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 5:30 PM UTC

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #8

Have there been any reviews by independent experts? This reads like a promo piece, in particular I'm not sure why the fluff bits about Musk "being a regular guy" are relevant. Most of the linked sources are either other Fortune puff pieces or Neuralink press releases.

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