• nifty@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I can already stream music into my head, and all without invasive surgery. What an innovation.

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        22 days ago

        Next thing you’ll tell me they’ll be selling monthly subscriptions to use those trains.

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      Me too, but not everyone can actually. Still doesn’t mean this is worthwhile. Look up anauralia (the sound version of aphantasia, which is a lack of mind’s eye visually).

      (sorry to anyone who discovers they have it from this comment)

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        22 days ago

        Ah fr, that’s interesting. I’ve been able to construct orchestral pieces in my dreams, though I have no training in instruments. I guess it’s from memory of things Ive heard.

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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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      They’re busy wearing something on their forehead to show their allegiance to a man who calls for the suffering of the least among us

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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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    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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    Remind me again, how many monkeys died an excruciating death because of this implant?

    He also says Teslas are fully self driving, and we know the truth about that.

    Any idiot can say any dumb ol thing that pops into their brain. It takes some wisdom not to.

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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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    Interesting how it’s ok to shit on technology helping disabled people as long as it’s being developed by a bad dude. If you hack a neurolink you should be charged with attempted manslaughter

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      Not trusting the provider of that tech is a damn good reason to be skeptical of something a person (disabled or otherwise) puts in their brain.

      It doesn’t have to be a hack, it could also just be incompetence. And judging by Tesla’s software track record, I’m not terribly confident in the overall safety of that device.

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        Yeah I would never put something like that in my head but it’s obvious it’s targeting disabled people first that don’t have much of a choice right now.

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    Elon musk also says it’ll let you shit flowers and breathe hard vaccum. Melon husk just makes shit up whenever he feels like it. It’s not going to stream music into your brain. They still can’t even get it to stop killing the testing animals.