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A Year of Telepathy

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Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by Yoric »

throwaway290 wrote: post #116
SimianSci wrote: post #74

I very violently recoil from any of Musk's ventures these days. Im sure there are some very smart and talented people working at Neuralink. They should go work for someone else as their boss has shown himself to be a revolting person and the kind of leader who seeks to actively harm people who inconvenience him. This kind of behavior is not befitting of a company that will need to cultivate an incredible amount of tr…

> Im sure there are some very smart and talented people working at Neuralink I'm sure there are. There may also be people with The Com background ( https://cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-cybercrime-violent-crime-... ) working on it too: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-... yea more known as the DOGE guy but worked at Neuralink before that. Imagine the potential for abuse.

Sadly, this kind of brings back memories of a few regimes employing criminals for enforcement.

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by Yoric »

KaiserPro wrote: post #129
sneak wrote: post #111

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I have no extremely strong pro- or anti- Musk feelings, but the ADL (who seem to me to be the experts on antisemitism) say that’s not what that was. https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403 There also doesn’t seem to be any corroborating data to suggest he’s a nazi. I’m all for calling a spade a spade if he is, but it seems that people are working backwards from the “I hate Musk” position rather than forwards fro…

Forigner here, one who's family has been shaped on both sides by the nazis and lived through either bombing, or were active members of the resistance in occupied europe. That was a Hitlergruß, no ifs no buts. More over it wasn't just the once. Does it make him a nazi? no. But one has to question why the fuck he thought it was a good idea. He's terminally online, he knows exactly what it is. He's seen the same memes a…

I think we're forgetting something.

As far as I understand, most of the leaders of the historical NSDAP (the Nazi party) / the Nazi regime were not Nazis themselves, insofar as they did not believe in whatever was written in Mein Kampf. Nazism was just a mean to grab and hold power. The true believers were basically victims of a con.

So... I don't care whether Elon Musk is actually a Nazi. I do believe that he is willing to use Nazism as a lever, which makes him much more dangerous.

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by wobfan »

romaaeterna wrote: post #118
computerthings wrote: post #115

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That's not questioning as in asking, that's accusing someone of something nobody can disprove. And if every single person who doesn't see the Nazi salute acts this way, smearing those who do, that's kind of telling. Basically " because it's not a Nazi salute, you're just a far leftist foreign agent nonperson" -- okay? That really does prove the point, and being confused by that shows having read zero bookshelves abou…

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> Sticking one's arm out is not a "Nazi salute" in the absence of an ideological component.

What?

So showing someone the middle finger straight in the face without also verbally expressing it (aka. showing their ideological component, to be as vague as you were), is not a bad thing at all, but an entirely neutral finger gesture, too?

Also: how can someone honestly compare the static images provided with Musk's salute. Apart from comparing static images being nonsensical when it's about a salute; even the referenced images are chosen so badly, that they look nothing like a Nazi salute. Like, you need to be aware of you mental gymnastics.

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by jeff_vader »

Isn't the main showstopper issue to solve for brain implants is scarring response or something similar? That is when body responds to the implant and surrounds electrodes with some sort of tissue reducing its effectiveness. Has Neuralink made any advancements in that area?

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by javcasas »

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #77
SimianSci wrote: post #74

I very violently recoil from any of Musk's ventures these days. Im sure there are some very smart and talented people working at Neuralink. They should go work for someone else as their boss has shown himself to be a revolting person and the kind of leader who seeks to actively harm people who inconvenience him. This kind of behavior is not befitting of a company that will need to cultivate an incredible amount of tr…

What is the problem with Musk? I know his many shenanigans, but what about his helmanship causes you to violently recoil?

Last time that people doing the nazi salute experimented with health, well it wasn't pretty.

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by computerthings »

romaaeterna wrote: post #118
computerthings wrote: post #115

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That's not questioning as in asking, that's accusing someone of something nobody can disprove. And if every single person who doesn't see the Nazi salute acts this way, smearing those who do, that's kind of telling. Basically " because it's not a Nazi salute, you're just a far leftist foreign agent nonperson" -- okay? That really does prove the point, and being confused by that shows having read zero bookshelves abou…

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here's a video comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Zwiv8erk0

it is what it is

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by kragen »

bmacho wrote: post #114
SimianSci wrote: post #88

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I think it comes down to his personal conduct. Specifically, just as I said, I think he actively tries to harm people who might inconvenience him or cause him damage to his public image. In short, I see him as a bully. One of the great examples of this is the infamous "Pedo guy" incident in which he showed himself as very unempathetic and petty the moment people dismissed him as he attempted to hastily insert himself…

> In the past he has participated in doxing governmental employees who might cause him financial damages, often encouraging his followers to harass beuraucrats and lawyers who are just doing their legal jobs. Is this legal in the US?

In general, yes. With narrow exceptions, employment as a public servant is a matter of public record and subject to public comment. Such comments are not only protected by US constitional law but in many cases are statutorily required to be taken into account by regulatory proceedings.

This makes it rather galling that Elmu is seeking to shield DOGE employees from such accountability, but understandable when people on Reddit are openly advocating their assassination.

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by zero_shift »

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #77
SimianSci wrote: post #74

I very violently recoil from any of Musk's ventures these days. Im sure there are some very smart and talented people working at Neuralink. They should go work for someone else as their boss has shown himself to be a revolting person and the kind of leader who seeks to actively harm people who inconvenience him. This kind of behavior is not befitting of a company that will need to cultivate an incredible amount of tr…

What is the problem with Musk? I know his many shenanigans, but what about his helmanship causes you to violently recoil?

He seems hostile to regulatory oversight which is a problem when he's selling a microchip you implant in your brain

Re: A Year of Telepathy

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Post by soVeryTired »

concordDance wrote: post #144
SrslyJosh wrote: post #32

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An "awkward gesture" that has no other meaning in western culture. Which he made twice. It's not something you can do by accident. > I can't imagine why he would throw one That's pretty naive. He's a white south african who recently said that Germany's furthest-right party should "get over" being guilty about what the nazis did.

> It's not something you can do by accident. There are countless memes online showing pictures of other famous people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortwz doing similar things. Anyway, even if it was a nazi salute, what would that even imply about him other than the childish edgelord aspect which is already well publicized? That he wants to gas the jews?

Still pictures though, right? Not actual videos of someone making the full gesture twice in a row.

What would it imply about him? He’s now a quasi-governmental figure aligning himself to the far right. He’s messaging to others on the far right that the federal government will tolerate them. Doing so will embolden them to take action.

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Post by llm_trw »

javcasas wrote: post #149
llm_trw wrote: post #55

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The simple solution is that all such devices must be submitted to a central government database and all blue prints, source code etc. will be released into the public domain is the company no longer supports the device or closes down.

We don't want to be political here. So, what do we do first? Propose a political solution. We all know how this is going to end, there have been more than enough cyberpunk videogames and novels for us all to read.

All regulations are political. I'm not sure what you think the issue here is.
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