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Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by mwigdahl »

kridsdale3 wrote: post #108
mwigdahl wrote: post #53

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My daughter has DBS for severe Tourette's. Her quality of life before the implant was horrible -- frequent 110 dB+ screams and self-injury. The implant has reduced her tic frequency and intensity by easily 95%. It's not only given her her life back but also the lives of her family members. The potential of brain interface technology is truly incredible -- both for good and ill.

I don't know if Congratulations is the right word to use, but it conveys how I feel about what you said.

Thank you, that works! :)

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by breve »

goosejuice wrote: post #449
hobs wrote: post #400

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I can acknowledge many facts, but since you seem to dodge that really big one I don't think we can have a productive discussion here. Talking about rationality in that context of what appears to be motivated thinking is ... interesting.

Do you think that you're sharing new information? That arguably the most hated man in America has consistently over promised and under delivered? It would be a little difficult to miss that over the last ten years. I find it rather sad that the work of so many talented engineers is simply dismissed because they'd rather talk about that clown. You'd think HN could at least separate the two. There's a whole lot of peop…

The work of many talented engineers at Tesla is dismissed by Musk: https://archive.md/QJQ3r

Some engineers have become so corrupted by the culture of lying of Tesla that they're willing to lie about things that there's no need to lie about, like quarter mile times of the Cybertruck:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE

The lead engineer on the Cybertruck sadly tried to defend the lie, while admitting that they never even ran that quarter mile:

https://x.com/wmorrill3/status/1746266437088645551

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by goosejuice »

breve wrote: post #472
goosejuice wrote: post #449

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Do you think that you're sharing new information? That arguably the most hated man in America has consistently over promised and under delivered? It would be a little difficult to miss that over the last ten years. I find it rather sad that the work of so many talented engineers is simply dismissed because they'd rather talk about that clown. You'd think HN could at least separate the two. There's a whole lot of peop…

The work of many talented engineers at Tesla is dismissed by Musk: https://archive.md/QJQ3r Some engineers have become so corrupted by the culture of lying of Tesla that they're willing to lie about things that there's no need to lie about, like quarter mile times of the Cybertruck: https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE The lead engineer on the Cyb…

And yet you and many others can't step back from the controversy for one second and discuss the engineering. Every single discussion around autonomous vehicles is poisoned by it.

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by d0gsg0w00f »

wombatpm wrote: post #249
d0gsg0w00f wrote: post #171

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But they were first to market. That's 90% of the work. There's a huge gap between "perfect unrealized idea" and "shit you can actually buy". Hate the man all you want, he'll go down in history as the Edison of electric vehicles, even though others will undoubtedly surpass the initial public offering technologically.

Turns out Edison was a jerk like Elon as well. At least according to Tesla.

Exactly my point

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by d0gsg0w00f »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #239
d0gsg0w00f wrote: post #171

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But they were first to market. That's 90% of the work. There's a huge gap between "perfect unrealized idea" and "shit you can actually buy". Hate the man all you want, he'll go down in history as the Edison of electric vehicles, even though others will undoubtedly surpass the initial public offering technologically.

First to what market? Electric cars have been sold since the 1800s (electric vehicles predate the 4-cycle internal combustion engine). Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota all had serial production of EVs in the 1990s or earlier. The land speed record holder in 1900 was an electric vehicle. Tesla wasn't first, they were relatively late, they just got it right in a number of ways. Self driving? Maybe, but there is a l…

Of course others were first to the technology, but you can't argue with Tesla being first to get EVs in the hands of everyday consumers. That's the market part of "first to market".

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by breve »

goosejuice wrote: post #473
breve wrote: post #472

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The work of many talented engineers at Tesla is dismissed by Musk: https://archive.md/QJQ3r Some engineers have become so corrupted by the culture of lying of Tesla that they're willing to lie about things that there's no need to lie about, like quarter mile times of the Cybertruck: https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE The lead engineer on the Cyb…

And yet you and many others can't step back from the controversy for one second and discuss the engineering. Every single discussion around autonomous vehicles is poisoned by it.

The engineering is compromised by Tesla's culture of lying:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062614

Tesla engineers will be best off moving to another company.

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by nibblenum »

iancmceachern wrote: post #293
nibblenum wrote: post #14

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Has this been used for other health issues too?

Yes, it comes from pacemaker tech, and is used for all kinds of dbs applications like this and also for pain blocking applications

thanks :)

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by dghlsakjg »

d0gsg0w00f wrote: post #475
dghlsakjg wrote: post #239

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First to what market? Electric cars have been sold since the 1800s (electric vehicles predate the 4-cycle internal combustion engine). Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota all had serial production of EVs in the 1990s or earlier. The land speed record holder in 1900 was an electric vehicle. Tesla wasn't first, they were relatively late, they just got it right in a number of ways. Self driving? Maybe, but there is a l…

Of course others were first to the technology, but you can't argue with Tesla being first to get EVs in the hands of everyday consumers. That's the market part of "first to market".

That is exactly what I'm arguing. "Everyday consumers" have had access to production electric vehicles since the 1800s.

Tesla provably weren't "first to market" as I pointed out. Anyone could have bought an EV in 1900, more than a full century before Tesla existed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Vehicle_Company).

Anyone could have bought one in the 1990s too.

Tesla was not first to market in any way. They became so popular that they have come to define the market in many people's minds, but there were mass market electric vehicles before Tesla made them. The Nissan Leaf was available for years before the Model S. Nissan had the first lithium battery vehicles in the 1990s.

I don't know why you are trying to martyr yourself on this hill. Being first to market rarely matters, despite what tech circles believe. The iPod, iPhone, Facebook, and Tesla were all followers in their respective markets, but have since become defining products.

At this point, even if we - for some reason - accept that Tesla was first to market with the Roadster, it isn't proving to be a lasting advantage. BYD is selling more electric cars than them starting last year, a trend that has gone into hyperdrive this year as Tesla sales go negative for the 2nd year in a row while BYD continues to dominate.

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by macinjosh »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #23
macinjosh wrote: post #20

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no, the psyop is getting the public to believe a single wave to a crowd is anything more than that.

Do it on one of your work zoom calls and report back.

i tried it. went well! we are invading poland next quarter.

Re: Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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Post by ay »

cobbzilla wrote: post #439
ay wrote: post #436

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Same here - but I can switch my vision for screen tasks to either only near-sighted (by being about 25cm away), or to far-sighted (by being about 70cm away). If I am doing that in the middle of the task, it feels a tiny bit “strange”.

Ah I see what you mean. For me I don't think there is any distance where both near & far eye could each have focus -- it's always too blurry in one or the other. I could see how being able to consciously switch would feel weird! I'm curious -- if you held a stereogram at the right distance, could you see the 3D image? Or is it also like me, only one eye at a time?

I had to do a little bit of “cross-eyeing” and then I can see something that does look like 3D. That said, my eyes are a little weird this way - back in childhood I trained to move them separately as well - a great party trick to freak out the people ! :-))
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