• nifty@lemmy.world
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    I can already stream music into my head, and all without invasive surgery. What an innovation.

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    Where the fuck are all the “Mark of the beast” people, am I living in crazy time? Fuck I’m living in crazy time…

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    I do audiology research and can tell you right now, short of a cochlear implant -no we can’t. And we are easily about two decades away from anything close. And even then, a CI can’t make music sound as good as your ears. There is no ‘one’ place in the brain you can imput music into. The most dense and easiest place to input the music is in the cochlea, like a cochlear implant does. Every place up the chain then branches out to thousands of connections and makes it harder and harder. And every step higher up that you try to interface into means you are skipping the initial signal generator and lose out on all the needed fidelity. The next step above a CI is an ABI, auditory brainstem inplant. And they sound so bad, just going one stop up from the cochlea, that those users barely can understand speech and only in the best settings. And normally after about a year of auditory therapy with it. Realistically we tell people (the handfull a year who will end up with one) that they should expect to get sound awareness, and that’s it, from their ABI. And now Elon talks about wanting to go another half dozen steps up from that and magically have the fidelity to make it sound like music?? GTFO. This guy is a moron and doesn’t know what he is talking about.

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      Plus, it’s really not worth the problems associated with brain chips. Even the Neuralink Human Test subjects ran into the same problem we’ve faced for decades: the connecting tissue dies. It might work for a few months and then people are going to need ANOTHER brain surgery to either remove it or fix it, if it even works multiple times to begin with.

      I wonder who they’re going to name the disease after when repeated Nueralink failures cause irreparable lifelong disease.

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    I wouldn’t trust anyone to put this device in my head, but Musk is the absolute last person I would trust. Look at what he did to twitter and now imagine he has direct access to your brain.

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    If you have ADHD, you don’t even need a Neuralink chip. Music is always playing in your head, whether you want it or not.

    For example, seeing this post just triggered a rickroll in my head and I can’t turn it off.

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    More like … a permanent watermark in your vision whether you are awake or asleep for ‘X.com’ … or you have to pay $9.99 a month to remove it.

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    Do exactly what we want, down to the movements of your eyes, or you will be in unimaginable pain.

    I don’t see what is funny about this. It absolutely will be used for egregious human rights violations.

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            I’m talking about human rights protected by the United Nations. Your rights are covered no matter where you’re from. Why on earth would you think this is an American problem? Please be educated.

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                Your prejudices aside, it has nothing to do with the discussion about Neuralink or the rights of future humans who may be affected by rights violations. Your comments just seem to be making a lot of noise and complaining? Not sure where you’re trying to go with this. Sorry buddy.

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      Both his albums “50” and “Beautiful Life” are pretty great! And he does a ton of great covers l his Youtube channel!

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    Am I the only one thinking, what if they hack it and make people’s heads explode? I’m good on all of this if it’s ever a thing. Considering how much control they have over cars remotely, you know they will have full control of this, and that’s pretty scary.

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    And it will not let you vote unless there’s an R next to the ballot selection, otherwise it tells your brain to drop the pen

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      Bold of you to think that you might be allowed to not vote according to the “approved plan”.

      You know, “for your convenience” and all.