Elon wants to make more money. One of the ways he can envision making more money is selling brain implants and the procedure to install them
Nah.
The only dipshits stupid enough to get Musk implants will be the same dipshits who think vaccines have mind-control trackers.
You say that as if there aren’t a ridiculous amount of those people.
Then thinning out their numbers can’t be a bad thing.
I have a couple former coworker friends who slob this dude’s knob all the time. One of em is staunch anti-govt (but loves his orange dictator obviously) and refuses flu shots from work every year because according to his this year is the year they start micro-chipping people.
Both of em would be the first in line for musk’s chip
Not a chance.
Cool, he can want whatever he wants, but I’m certainly not going to be one of them.
Bold of you to assume you’ll still have a choice.
Dude can’t build cars that don’t fall apart when they get wet, and can’t build a truck that doesn’t fall apart for uh, existing, and we’re supposed to let him stick stuff in our brains?
No, thanks, but no.
Why are you saying “No, thanks, but no” when you could be saying “FUCK NO! GET OUTTA HERE WITH THE GARBAGE!”
You can even add a jersy accient if you want to be extra fun in your telling elon to fuck off.
I’d prefer a more New Yorker ‘HEY! My brain is working fine over here!’, personally.
AY! I’M THINKIN’ 'ERE!!!
Or rocket launch pads that don’t break the rocket launching/get destroyed on launch
I ignored SpaceX because as far as things go, they’re pretty successful. Rockets blowing up and crashing during testing is pretty much just… a thing rockets do.
(And Shotwell is in charge far more than Spaceman Musk.)
It’s more the issues and failures happen a lot more as soon as musk gets involved. Like the starship launchpad failure
we’re supposed to let him
He won’t ask you.
Let’s not forget an important distinction here. This man is not making any of these things, and he isn’t capable of making them. But, he is capable of directly and indirectly impacting the people who are capable of making them negatively enough that we get utter failures like the cybertruck.
Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.
Also important:
This tech has been around for about 25 years already, first success was 1998…
Johnny received his implants in March 1998. During a 12-hour operation, Bakay inserted the electrodes, housed in two glass cones, into the area of Johnny’s cortex that controls left-hand movement. Once the cones were implanted, the doctors believed that axons – parts of the brain cell that transmit electrical impulses – would grow through them. When an impulse passed along an axon, it would be intercepted by tiny gold contacts and transmitted through the electrodes. ‘‘Axons are really like telephone lines,’’ Kennedy explains. ‘‘We’re just diverting the lines and eavesdropping on the call.’’
The hope was that by imagining he was moving his paralyzed left hand, Johnny would cause an increase in electrical impulses passing among the neurons there. These impulses could then be transmitted by the implanted electrodes to a receiver placed on Johnny’s pillow, and from there, the analog brain signals could be translated into digital commands that Johnny’s computer could understand. In theory, by controlling the frequency with which the neurons in his motor cortex fire, Johnny could move a cursor up or down, left or right on his screen.
Musk is just paying people to miniaturize existing tech and is using marketing to make people believe he’s personally inventing it
The bad part is his absolute disregard for basic lab safety and pretty much any other regulation.
It’s like how SpaceX doesn’t care how many rockets explode, Musk probably views early adaptors as sacrificial lambs.
the strategy of sacrifical ginney pigs is good for progress, bad for ethics.
Oh for sure: Musk can barely make a shitpost on Twitter, let alone actually do anything else.
But, conversely, he’s in a position to dictate culture and policy and direction and that’s led to shitty cars and whatever the fuck is going on at Twitter.
Aaaand yes, past performance is not a predictor for future outcomes, but uh, somehow I don’t think it’s irrelevant either.
Don’t give him more credit than he deserves.
Banks should have listened to this when he wanted a loan to buy twitter.
He should be an example and do it himself.
Yeah that’s not going to happen.
He absolutely will. Granted it’ll be after all the little kinks like meningitis, aluminum poisoning, spontaneous ignition, malicious hacking, eternal nightmare states, blindness, cancer, and cluster headaches are ironed out. 90% death rate, babyyy
We can dream
Not if that brain chip malfunctions.
How would that be worse than the infant idiot we deal with now?
How crazy would it be tho if we found out he really was an early adopter, had one put it in a decade ago, and that’s why he’s so bat shit now?
Did kanye west get one too?
He should do the same with “flying to Mars” first.
Both at the same time
Just like colonization of Mars. He can go first, with or without others
If he doesn’t go first no nation should allow it. Dude is a fraud.
Are you a bot?
No, you?
I don’t have a “bot account” indicator, so … no. Though I have been confused for one.
Sorry, no idea why it says that but I’m pretty new to lemmy so it’s probably something I did, I’ll look into it
Sorry I snapped at you, being mistaken for ai or bots is a sore spot for me
I mean I can certainly understand where the confusion may have come from.
Oh that’s weird, no idea, thanks 🤣
Yeah skimming it very briefly, it looks like your instance doesn’t even show bot indicators, so, no way you could’ve known really. But there should be a button to turn it off somewhere in your user settings, probably down near the bottom.
I want to implant Elon with 00 buck
Downvote because I don’t give a flying fuck what Musk wants and random shit about musk is not technology
He shoulda gone first 🧠🔫
Godspeed to all the brain dead idiots who will sign up for this, and will become even more literally brain dead after getting the implant.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was not a manual, Elon
And we won’t be the cool protagonist with sleek looking augs and doing parkour with Icarus either. We’ll be the ones hooked on neuropozyne hoping for our implants not going haywire at some point.
“business wants to sell lots of products” fucking duh who cares.
