Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people

After the way he handles electric cars, space rockets, underground tunnels and presidential campaign announcements...

Who’s going to sign up for those trials?

I can't help thinking of the "V-Chip" in the South Park movie, which Kyle's mom had invented after her son saw the Terrance and Philip movie. "It gives the child a small shock anytime an obscenity is uttered."

Yeah, the Republicans will have it set up for "P" mode, which zaps you if you think about porn; "V" mode, which zaps you for cursing; "B" mode, which gets you for liking President Biden; "T" mode, for insufficient love of Donald Trump; "G" mode, in case you accidentally think of Teh Gay; "D" mode, if you feel like doing drag today; and on and on.

the brain plugs and the nanochips everyone received when they got the COVID vaccine.

Musk's callous irresponsibility should disqualify anything he touches if human lives are in the balance.

No implants in my head, thx.

One of the central challenges of any kind of neural interfaces is heat production, especially at the point where you're interfacing neurons and electronics. It's one reason that I've NEVER felt that we are going to see a serious cyborg revolution - the potential for literal burnout, epileptic seizures, strokes, aneurisms, and so forth, is simply too high.

Right? Right?

Perhaps musky should get the first lobotomy..er… I mean implant

To many investors the glass is less than half full when it comes to Elon Musk's ability to undertake technological knowhow and make a
continuous positive profit worth investing in

I'll try to para phrase what Elon Musk would say in his own style:


"I've always said the financial sector has gotten too big for its bretches in todays world, so much so as to put a rake handle in the very face of progress. It's always the same, can't see the tree in the forest has its roots based in canals, tiny passage ways which are amazing, you can't invent that stuff driving by a forest at high speeds looking through the back seat window of your dads old station wagon, oh no.

Technologies based in scientific knowledge, you know that old thread, lndeed needs to quicken the pace in all areas,
and I mean all areas from the existential threat of emiting green house gases into our atmosphere,
to saving a bunch of kids who are trapped in a cave with a new mini submarine I have invented - and with that he fires his fire thrower at a computer displaying some social media website - a real fire thrower which of course you can purchase
online, because everyone wishes they had one if they only could.

Let us populate Mars and open up Space, the Universe as we understand it to people like me.
Afterall NASA, did a pretty good job, brought in a lot of technology we all use today. Well I just think my SpaceX privately owned can further the cause too"

Just in:
The FDA acknowledged in a statement that the agency cleared Neuralink to use its brain implant and surgical robot for trials on patients but declined to provide more details.

The critical milestone comes as Neuralink faces federal scrutiny following Reuters reports about the company's animal experiments.

Neuralink employees told Reuters last year that the company was rushing and botching surgeries on monkeys, pigs and sheep, resulting in more animal deaths than necessary, as Musk pressured staff to receive FDA approval. The animal experiments produced data intended to support the company's application for human trials, the sources said.

In one instance in 2021, the company implanted 25 out of 60 pigs with the wrong-sized devices. All the pigs were subsequently killed - an error that employees said could have been easily avoided with more preparation.


The critical milestone comes as Neuralink faces federal scrutiny following Reuters reports about the company's animal experiments.

Neuralink employees told Reuters last year that the company was rushing and botching surgeries on monkeys, pigs and sheep, resulting in more animal deaths than necessary, as Musk pressured staff to receive FDA approval. The animal experiments produced data intended to support the company's application for human trials, the sources said.

In one instance in 2021, the company implanted 25 out of 60 pigs with the wrong-sized devices. All the pigs were subsequently killed - an error that employees said could have been easily avoided with more preparation.

You want a better anything - a union can teach and protect a skilled workers
outcome which enables a better world.

I think it's about promoting peoples potential Elon,

I say that since I work next to his Tesla Motors plant in Fremont, CA.

If you think about all the market capital that has gone into that place,
I would take the worker, imagine him or her better trained, more respected,
and given the opportunity to learn,

And then you place it next to the understanding of how best to
represent the local environment towards improving a sustainable
distribution methodology that is both efficient and environmentally
positive - well then, you have a mix some people invision as a true
synergy that produces for all the right reasons.

Hey, this is no Utopian nonsense
I was born in the late 1950's
I lived through some of FDR's policies
when nothing was by any means perfect back then,
but there certainly was something about
understanding how we were all in it together -
Look racism is laced with ignorance and cruelity

And it's not very efficient for a reason

The thing that really makes a better world is
improving peoples potential

That was the hope behind the creation of the world wide web
the distribution of knowledge to be used as a tool for the betterment
of all people.

Doby Gillis secretly felt this way, I felt that was the secret behind the success of that show.
Then it was of course followed later on by John Denver as Gilligan in Gilligan's Island.

And oh boy, then you come full circle with a positive philosophy of life and one day some success.

It's all so obviously there, but no matter how hard you try you just can't get there do to incredibly
silly hijinks

Governor DeFascist, I'd say prisoners and at least 1/3 of all women might be considered fair game.

...then maybe we can talk.