It’s mind blowing to me that major news wires write stories based entirely on what Musk says with no corroboration and no acknowledgment in the text that he’s a notorious liar with a highly specific record of deceiving the press and the public about his investments. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
This is just to say
he totally moved the cursor
with his Neuralink
that was in
his brain
and which
you probably
think
is vaporware
Forgive me
there are federal investigations
so desperate
and so distracting
"he can make a mouse cause the cursor to jiggle on screen and not do anything with it" is much, much different than "he can control a cursor to do things"
"Musk said Neuralink was now trying to get as many mouse button clicks as possible from the patient." This is the faaaakest thing I've ever seen. Isn't it newsworthy that the richest man in the world is just making up accomplishments for his company?
Given the state of the technology a couple of decades ago, it would be a bit surprising if a patient couldn't do this, at least a bit.
This would answer essentially none of the important questions around this device, including how they fk they proceeded to human testing with zero published results.
Also, moving a cursor means a computer receives signals from the chip, and the user can consciously influence those signals a bit. With enough processing, with some errors, the user can transmit information at a bitrate slightly greater than zero.
Technically not nothing, light years from the hype.
I was taken aback when I saw that list. I always assumed they would say things like ALS, or other degenerative diseases. Obesity? Depression? That is an incredibly invasive procedure, and like you said, how would a brain-computer interface help any of those things?
There seems to be a select group of people with similar characteristics who get this kind of media treatment. I wonder what they have in common besides being liars? 🧐🤔
Future press release from Neuralink: “the first patient implanted with a brain chip has voluntarily been euthanized and their remains are being cremated without autopsy as per signed agreement. Neuralink is grateful for the invaluable data obtained.”
I’m expecting for us to find out that the implant used is someone else’s proven technology and musk is pretending it is his brain chip.
Then, when found out he will just say “we are testing the software interface first!”
Like if I was a journalist, I would ask the very, very simple followup before going to print m:
1. Show us the patient.
2. Show us the doctor who performed the surgery.
This is MSM in general, really. About the only due diligence is a reaction for the other side, so you hear two strains of lies, and we are all set to fire up the presses.
This was a much-needed sanity check.
Whenever I see a headline about Elon Musk talking about money, my first thought is always, "Do we really want to treat the guy who lost nearly $100 billion as a subject matter expert on business and finance?"
He's a literal businessman. This is something they do with all businessmen because they have investments in major news wires. Why would they cut off their own funding?
There are two groups of people in the world. People who would absolutely let Elon put a chip in their brain, and people who absolutely would not. And I’m fine with both groups getting what they want.
They do this with Putin and Trump too. It'll be a whole story about a human rights agency with allegations about Russia, and the end of the story will be "We asked Putin, and he said they're doing nothing wrong at all and actually it's America's fault. And now for the weather..."
