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I wish the patient, scientists, and doctors success. I'm very concerned about the safety record for Neuralink, but I desperately hope they turned things around and that this patient responds well.
This tech has existed for decades, musk is just trying to shrink it.
I remember early 90s hearing about paralyzed patients who could control a mouse and keyboard through an implant.
It was mostly for bed ridden patients, so no one tri d to shrink it. Musk is billing this as a medical device, but the only reason to shrink it, is for people that dont need it.
He's predicting regular healthy people using it, so he's dumping crazy money into this. And there just isn't a big enough consumer base for it, even if it wasn't musk making it.
So even if it works, he ain't making money from it.
Shrinking it would be very useful for people that have disabilities that don't leave them bedridden.
Hopefully they have other options than Muskshit. Anything he touches is unsafe