• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    The difference is that it’s consensual, you libtard.

    Now try not to think about those monkeys we’re testing the product on and whether it was consensual for them.

    /s if it wasn’t obvious

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      11 months ago

      Just because you have someone’s consent, doesn’t make whatever you do to them legal.

      For example, you can sign a contract to allow me to bludgeon you to death, but it’s still murder regardless of your consent.

      Frankly, Elon has killed enough animals in this endeavor that it’s unconscionable to allow him to test it on people. It’s only going to end poorly.

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        11 months ago

        you can sign a contract to allow me to bludgeon you to death, but it’s still murder regardless of your consent

        I agree this is the current law. But I certainly don’t agree with this law. Do you?

        I feel people should absolutely be allowed to consent to death, or potential death. And I mean, we already can in various other contexts like skiing in avalanche terrain, ordering too many big macs, or medically assisted suicide to prevent suffering from incurable conditions (at least in a few civilized places).

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          11 months ago

          Yeah we have that in Canada, you can choose to end it with doctor help via the MAID program. Lets people die with dignity.

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          11 months ago

          I understand your point. I think people should be able to consent to that, but how do you assure they don’t do this because they get forced to agree?

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            11 months ago

            The same way we assure people consenting to anything at all are not being forced to. We try our best basically. And sometimes we’ll probably get it wrong and need to improve. I’m completely ok with that when the alternative is guaranteed preventable suffering. Just like I’m ok with people using power of attorney to protect the finances of people with dementia, even if sometimes it gets misapplied.

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    11 months ago

    All I’m seeing is ads streamed directly to the brain with no way but one to stop it, assuming that instinct doesn’t get neurologically suppressed.

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      11 months ago

      You don’t have to worry about that, It’s an Elon Musk owned product, he already solved that with TwiXer. He just has to make sure that Nazi’s can send their propoganda to your brain, and then advertisers will stay very far away from the neuro link.

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      11 months ago

      Neuralink aims to help people with paralysis communicate by allowing them to remotely control devices using brain activity. In the future, Neuralink may help enhance user memory and cognitive abilities, restore a user’s motor, sensory and visual functions as well as treat neurological disorders.

      It’s for paralyzed people and neuralink isn’t the only company researching the technology. I swear, where the fuck do you people get your information from, and how do you just never bother to google it to see for yourselves?

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        11 months ago

        No, Neuralink is for stupid Elmo fanboys to waste money and health on and allow Elmo to continue executing his fascist anti-human agenda. And yes, other companies actually try to make devices that will help people. It’s not about the technology, it’s about that motherfucking shit-golem and the way he treats people (hint: like expandable cheap renewable resources). But if you like that fuck so much, I hope you’ll be one of the people leaving Earth and following him to Mars. I actually can’t wait that day to happen. We used to joke how great it would be to put all fascist into a space rocker and launch them into space, and it will soon not only become reality, but the stupid fucks will go willingly. Perfect!

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          11 months ago

          Me “it’s meant to help paralyzed people move and walk and live again, something previously deemed impossible”

          You: goes off on some wild Elon musk fueled rage and says nothing about the point of the product

          You might need to seek help if you get this worked up over something that heals people…

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    Yk, I’ll play devils advocate and say that I see the good in this. People with disabilities will finally be able to do things.

    But, governments will definitely love this. And the proprietary technology would definitely be spying on people, no surprise there.

    I’m really afraid it could become a mandate to get in the future (gotta learn how to survive in the woods.)

    So overall, it has good potential but would definitely be used for harm. I think it’s a net negative.

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    11 months ago

    What. I still rember the article about the Monkeys Musk butchered with his Microchips! This was terrifying and disgusting and now he is allowed to do this to humans?! WTF.

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      11 months ago

      Regulatory capture at work. If you’re the second-richest man in the world and a darling of the far right to boot, they’ll let you do pretty much whatever you want.