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Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted

www.businessinsider.com Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted

"We can't blow up the first three. That's not an option here," Shivon Zilis, the Neuralink director, told Elon Musk's biographer.

Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a "Fitbit in your skull." The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink's bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move within a subject's head or that the chip could overheat.

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The Andromedus Galacticus Collection @lemm.ee Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted

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What the fuck is wrong with people?

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Even if it was safe “Fitbit in your skull” sounds awful

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"Think about how dumb the average person is. Now, realize that half of them are dumber than that."

George Carlin
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Love that they're calling it a Fitbit in your skull. Cause Fitbit is currently dying and removing support. Imagine getting a skull implant that stops getting support and updates after a year, and you now have a useless device in your brain

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As I said in another thread about nLink:

Anyone getting this shit will die just like every single fucking monkey test subject. If they don’t die, their suffering will be unbearable

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

Go on Elon, show us how it’s done and take the first one

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"Your trial subscription to module: 'breathing' will end in 30 days. If you'd like to continue your subscription please accept the new terms and conditions and link your payment method using the following link."

P.s. I know neuralink cannot do this... Yet

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This is like self-solving problem then?

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tf is my skull gonna do with a fitbit?

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This timeline sucks.

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I'm sure Musk won't randomly disable any features remotely.

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I would guess, and this is completely a guess, these are Elon fans who think that the vaccines were dangerous and had microchips in them.

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He’s done wonders with Twitter/Tesla/spacex, I don’t see how he could foul this up

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Everyone needs to read about the poor monkeys in these trials.

Horrific.

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It does not surprise me that muskrats would sign up for this. Theyre basically brainwashed anyway so a chip wouldnt really change much.

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natural selection is back baby

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No way in hell would I do that. I can't think of a worse technology to be an earlier adopter on.

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We... at least I learnt about this in school. Its called natural selection.

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Hooo boii. I just cannot wait till we can't sleep because Muskrat keeps appearing in our dreams, trying to convince us that he is a cool memer.

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Fuck him, and fuck that.

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Ah, natural selection. I don't wish death upon any of these people, but I certainly won't be surprised when they start dropping like flies (or the countless monkeys in the trials).

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I'd be in line myself of it wasn't for a few key things.

Successful trials

Elon's history on fucking with shit for his own entertainment and/or personal gain

You know this will be connected to the internet to work

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Musk makes it sound like he is the only person with a company investing in this, even though.

One example is Synchron that already beat him to human trials two years ago

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I need one of these chips like I need a hole in my... oh.

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Eh, someday we're going to have safe, powerful cybernetic implants and it'll be because some people were willing to be test subjects. I'm not willing to be a test subject myself but I'm glad that other people are.

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This link from the middle of the article was better than the article:

https://www.businessinsider.com/synchron-beats-elon-musk-neuralink-us-human-trials-brain-implant-2022-7?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

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I can see 2024 headlines: "Neuralink test subjects try to crash into pedestrians or blow up before reaching space. Workers implanted the wrong chips due to time pressure from the CEO"

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AKA thousands of people are so terminally stupid that even such an implant cannot cause any damage to already f-uped brain remains.

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Didn’t realize so many people have already had lobotomies.

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Well, there's obviously nothing inside their skulls anyway 😜.

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Man I'd love to get this if literally anyone else was behind it, I always wanted to be a cyborg.

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The moment this becomes widespread you know there are going to be people figuring out how to jailbreak the chips. I'm down for the idea of cybernetics but no way would I get any kind of implant even capable of a wireless connection.

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This is how the zombie apocalypse begins.. loads crossbow...

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On the bright side even at worst case scenario nothing of value will be lost.

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I feel like the overlap of people willing to have a chip inserted in their brain and people willing to wear a MAGA hat is significantly non-zero.

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A venn diagram would show they’re all trump supporters as well. 🤣

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Let's gooooo, sign me up!!

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