Neuralink is working on INVASIVELY implanting electronics in your brain. If THOSE IMPLANTS CORRODE/DECAY/BREAK which happens all the time in invasive Brain-Machine Interface literature, that person is fucked. Those implants don't come out without brain surgery that is too costly for the patient to pay for. (talking an easy 500K-$1Mil minimum, research study won't pay for it).
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When the implants break down or too many/too large of signals are sent to stimulate the brain, nearby neurons break down and scar tissue forms around the implant, leaving that implant useless and permanently damaging your surrounding brain.
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One thing they don't tell you is that the FDA by law requires Neuralink (and any company making an invasive medical device) to monitor and send back data from peoples brains to the FDA without the patient's consent or knowledge. FDA's main focus is "efficacy" meaning safety for patient (though we all know that is bullshit with Covid) and
privacy doesn't matter at all in in their regulations.
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Fuck Neuralink. Work on making something similar that is NONINVASIVE, that is a brain machine interface not requiring surgery so it can just be a cap you wear on your head. That is the technology that brings FREEDOM!
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Edit: I know a lot about this field, you can ask me anything about it rather than downvoting.
Internal stimulation devices (or whatever the real term is) is already here, think pacemakers, hearing or vision aids, etc. I could see this being used by amputees to control artificial limbs, for example — but I’m an optimist.
The question is do you, as the patient, get a say in having one installed?
This is no different than the Vax bullshit, in a way. There will be those who would need (for whatever reason, good or dumb) to have some device implanted in their brains, they get to choose.
The tipping point is when bad actors, require said implantation, and their justification? “It’s to keep you safe”. It’s then you know nefarious actions are at play.
Unfortunately, these things will be invented. It’s in our nature to invent, innovate. AND it’s also in our nature to destroy or misuse power.
I think this has been mentioned a few times on the Elon Musk posts, but I'll say it another way.
Yes, he's creating innovative products that could lead to our detriment. But look at it from the larger lens of the past 150 years. Every technology created has mostly benefited most people (at least for those it was intended for [thinking medically]). All of these same technologies have been used as weapons against us. Phones, Cellular phones, Smart phones, and smart watches. They've been good in that people have ease of long range communications etc. They have been used for evil by people listening in illegally to obtain dirt, etc. when they ought not to. Pick any line of thought and this is the case. So will this be used for evil? Absolutely. The rate of technology promoting evil has increased as fast as technology itself. Printing presses, pornographic magazines, internet, porn sites, now with smart phones, people have hookup apps or cam girls guys hermaphrodites you name it. The problem exploded with the technology. We are coming, I think, to a tipping point. Evil has increased so fast, God WILL take action. This has been true throughout human history in different ways. My belief is that the drastic action will not be the end of the world, but we will see a sharp change. I pray it's a good outcome for us all. Maybe God placed a team in the right place in the USA, and that team is Q, I don't know. But we are all responsible for our own actions, and it is high time that we act like it. Let's each do what we can. Love our neighbors by teaching them the truth, all truth. If they have a slight variation, we can have some gray area, but if they are not in the gray, but in the black, but willing to listen, take them over the fence to the side of truth.
I'm Presbyterian (PCA, not PCUSA), but I don't [foolishly] believe that only people in my church (or similar churches) are saved, but those who agree with the core tenants of the Christian faith. Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, there are many people bound for heaven, I only named a few. Whereas I may disagree on theological points with many, those conversations ought to happen in love, not in vicious hate. "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord, "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow."
Neuralink is working on INVASIVELY implanting electronics in your brain. If THOSE IMPLANTS CORRODE/DECAY/BREAK which happens all the time in invasive Brain-Machine Interface literature, that person is fucked. Those implants don't come out without brain surgery that is too costly for the patient to pay for. (talking an easy 500K-$1Mil minimum, research study won't pay for it).
--
When the implants break down or too many/too large of signals are sent to stimulate the brain, nearby neurons break down and scar tissue forms around the implant, leaving that implant useless and permanently damaging your surrounding brain.
--
One thing they don't tell you is that the FDA by law requires Neuralink (and any company making an invasive medical device) to monitor and send back data from peoples brains to the FDA without the patient's consent or knowledge. FDA's main focus is "efficacy" meaning safety for patient (though we all know that is bullshit with Covid) and
privacy doesn't matter at all in in their regulations.
--
Fuck Neuralink. Work on making something similar that is NONINVASIVE, that is a brain machine interface not requiring surgery so it can just be a cap you wear on your head. That is the technology that brings FREEDOM!
--
Edit: I know a lot about this field, you can ask me anything about it rather than downvoting.
Good summation, I like it.
Internal stimulation devices (or whatever the real term is) is already here, think pacemakers, hearing or vision aids, etc. I could see this being used by amputees to control artificial limbs, for example — but I’m an optimist.
The question is do you, as the patient, get a say in having one installed?
This is no different than the Vax bullshit, in a way. There will be those who would need (for whatever reason, good or dumb) to have some device implanted in their brains, they get to choose.
The tipping point is when bad actors, require said implantation, and their justification? “It’s to keep you safe”. It’s then you know nefarious actions are at play.
Unfortunately, these things will be invented. It’s in our nature to invent, innovate. AND it’s also in our nature to destroy or misuse power.
I think this has been mentioned a few times on the Elon Musk posts, but I'll say it another way.
Yes, he's creating innovative products that could lead to our detriment. But look at it from the larger lens of the past 150 years. Every technology created has mostly benefited most people (at least for those it was intended for [thinking medically]). All of these same technologies have been used as weapons against us. Phones, Cellular phones, Smart phones, and smart watches. They've been good in that people have ease of long range communications etc. They have been used for evil by people listening in illegally to obtain dirt, etc. when they ought not to. Pick any line of thought and this is the case. So will this be used for evil? Absolutely. The rate of technology promoting evil has increased as fast as technology itself. Printing presses, pornographic magazines, internet, porn sites, now with smart phones, people have hookup apps or cam girls guys hermaphrodites you name it. The problem exploded with the technology. We are coming, I think, to a tipping point. Evil has increased so fast, God WILL take action. This has been true throughout human history in different ways. My belief is that the drastic action will not be the end of the world, but we will see a sharp change. I pray it's a good outcome for us all. Maybe God placed a team in the right place in the USA, and that team is Q, I don't know. But we are all responsible for our own actions, and it is high time that we act like it. Let's each do what we can. Love our neighbors by teaching them the truth, all truth. If they have a slight variation, we can have some gray area, but if they are not in the gray, but in the black, but willing to listen, take them over the fence to the side of truth.
I'm Presbyterian (PCA, not PCUSA), but I don't [foolishly] believe that only people in my church (or similar churches) are saved, but those who agree with the core tenants of the Christian faith. Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, there are many people bound for heaven, I only named a few. Whereas I may disagree on theological points with many, those conversations ought to happen in love, not in vicious hate. "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord, "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow."
Well said fren, well said.