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[–] [email protected] 119 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to suggest that the guy who thought driving Teslas in tunnels underground was the most efficient method of transportation shouldn't be trusted with inserting chips into people's brains?

[–] [email protected] 113 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He didn't actually think it was the most efficient. It's way worse. He knew he could get a proposed high speed rail line killed so it wouldn't cut into his car sales. He did not care one bit what happened after it died. Everything else was his PR team.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh for sure. He was absolutely sabotaging the proposed train network and it unfortunately worked...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The train from LA to Vegas is under construction. The problem in Vegas is that the casinos don’t want you leaving their property unless you’re headed to another property they also own. Musk’s tunnel just goes to the convention center and is obviously not a serious solution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

And also all our monkey cousins died. :(

[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 months ago (4 children)

When is Elon releasing the Neuralink chip with Full Self Driving Autopilot?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When he lands on Mars or gets a vacuum train running.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He's gone from suck to blow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Great. Now I have an image of Elmo in a maid outfit with a vacuum.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For doing chores, going to work, school, listening to your SO complain about something. The applications are limitless!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I don't need an implant to go into a fugue state. Just drugs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No lie ... if they could make a chip that like ... Shuts off cognition while I'm at the gym so I don't have to experience it ... I'd consider it.

I really hate working out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

have you seen the show Severance? This is exactly the premise of that show.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Little advice for those getting this procedure. Do not forget to put your Neuralink in shower mode when you take a shower. You have been warned.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Oh you thought that was for damage prevention? No it’s actually to make sure it gets wet. I heard the Cybertruck’s trunk department QC’d it.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (7 children)

What's the story on PETA killing animals?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (54 children)

They have shelters that euthanized a high number of animals. They have also stolen animals from owners including homeless people and children.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

12 year old article, here's newsweeks factcheck from a few years ago.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

https://petakillsanimals.com/

TL;DR: Domesticated animals deserve death. More specifically, because they letting them live is "inhumane" because they won't thrive without human influence—which they're strictly against.

IMO: These people are fucking psychopaths.

Edit: Yes, that specific site is sponsored by the meat industry. I didn't think it needed to be said, but don't take sensational topics at face value and read any receipts provided (which they did). Or, use Google and find other sources (that are also probably backed by corporate or political interests). In either case, PETA has made it pretty clear that they're hypocrites who are euthanizing healthy animals.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you saw the build quality of Teslas, and his handling of Twitter, and him calling a diver a paedo, and you still thought "I should let that man perform medical experiments on me", then you probably fucking deserve it tbh.

Just go for it. What's the worst that can happen? You get double brain damage?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why is his face so punch-able?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I think it's 'cause we know more about him. I think if we knew he was a whimsical dude and legitimately trying to help people instead of enriching himself, we'd see these pics and give him a bit more of a pass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Because he looks like a smug bastard

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

I've been doubting all the claims about the guy that had the chip installed too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


But anyone who’s ready to raise their hands for brain surgery might want to hear what one of the Neuralink co-founders recently said during an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal podcast The Future of Everything recently sat down with Dr. Benjamin Rapoport, a neurosurgeon who co-founded Neuralink with Musk and a team of scientists back in 2016.

Rapoport left Neuralink to start his own company called Precision Neuroscience and one specific part of the interview really stood out to us.

Brain-computer interfaces have made tremendous strides in the past decade, allowing people to literally control machines with their thoughts.

Companies like Musk’s Neuralink tend to get all the headlines, but there are a number of firms, including Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience.

Neuralink has received plenty of criticism over the years, with MIT Technology Review calling it “neuroscience theater” back in 2020, and horrifying allegations of monkey torture were revealed in 2022.


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