I find the wording weird: The neuralink's threads have retracted from the brain.
The threads can't move or disconnect on their own. Neither can brain cells. All that can be measured is a loss of connection.
The far more reasonable explanation is that the brain cells at the connection point have died.
In principle they could have pulled out slightly, if there's jostling and tiny movements in skull then you'd expect them to work loose over time if they're not securely anchored
The patient was a paraplegic. I'm not sure how much they'd be capable of moving enough to dislodge the in-skull writing.
Not totally surprising, I feel bad for the person who was in a desperate enough situation to become a con man narcissist's guinea pig.
It looks like we're learning the lesson we already learned back when Bill Gates tried to mess around with the education system and faceplanted; just because billionaires made a bunch of money selling a fancy toaster they invented or whatever, doesn't make them experts on anything else.
I'd sooner put a bullet in my head than something Elon Musk had a hand in.
The Gates Foundation has been working in education for over two decades, and still is
And has produced mostly expensive failures which they simply abandoned.
This is because Bill Gates is just a guy who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad's money, he doesn't know jack about education and has repeatedly ignored the advice of experts because it wasn't what he wanted to try.
We place too much virtue on wealth in this country, just because someone has accumulated a lot of wealth doesn't mean they should be allowed to tinker with our society and try out ideas they had in a dream or w/e.
Instead they should just pay their taxes.
Well, I've got good news, you can do both at the same time with the patented cyber-bullet! When it implants, it implants 100 percent of the time.
I'm excited to get more cyborg parts especially after laser ablating my eyeballs
Did the implant eat part of the subject's brain and then die?
Sounds like the brain scanner has dead pixels.
Before anyone gets too excited: some of their electrodes are no longer able to record a signal from the patient's brain. They're reprogramming their software to work with fewer electrodes. No one is being turned into a borg drone.
A software patch for a hardware failure.
Sounds like what they do at Tesla, too.
Well it's also what NASA is doing. Only logical if you don't want to dig it out again.
That is still a pretty serious issue. It’s not something you should downplay
No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Yet.
You, too, will be assimilated.
I was thinking more a vegetable than a borg drone.
I don't know. Even if the outcome is just that the implant just stop working, with no other issue, it's looking pretty bad to me.
Since it required literal brain surgery just to be installed, which I assume is already a serious risk, it's not something you want to potentially be useless.
The implant is already malfunctioning after a few months. Makes you wonder how many more of these threads will retract over the next following months.
No one is being turned into a borg drone.
Damn. I finally thought this would be the year :(
"We can't control him and he's currently on a rampage. We urge all citizens to stay indoors with the doors and windows locked and your curtains or blinds drawn."
“…you now have five seconds to comply….”
oh huh
just had a moment where I realized that this is a real prelude to SOMA and maybe .hack//SIGN
ooh this is a real bizarre feeling I'm currently having
The .hack// timeline had net Epos rivaling the likes of the Odyssey and Beowulf.
...Is that the problem? We need more epic poetry to guide neural interface and AI development?
Just let the AI create its own poetry about that. Ain't they selling us the idea that it can do anything an humans are useless and deprecated now?
Sooo, is there like a certain knuckle-cracking sequence to turn it off and on again or what? Lol
Did a worm eat it?
There are lots of parasitic bugs in this story, including Elon Musk
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