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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Neuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.
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  • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
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    I hope he experiments on him self and it goes horribly wrong

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      Ha, You don’t think that’s already happened?

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        Nah, I think his brain damage is from all the K he’s zooted out on

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      At the same time, I feel like we shouldn’t let that happen because imagine if he actually succeeds? And then we just have immortal crackhead Lex Luthor with a hallucinating ChatGPT whispering further delusions directly into his brain. That can’t be good for any of us.

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      Elon isn’t even brave enough to go up in one of his own rockets.

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    Brain chips from the people who “move fast and break things”. This can only end well.

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    If definitely seems dystopian, but hopefully this ends up helping some people who are quadriplegic.

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      There’s a shit ton of people I’d trust more with this work than Elon

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        Absolutely. However through his maniacal adventures he may find where this technology should NOT go to progress.

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        Hopefully the people elon’s persuading to do this work are better aligned.

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      deleted by creator

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        Except it doesn’t.

        Don’t overlook the ‘Fi’ in ‘SciFi.’

        Aspects of tech are often correctly predicted in SciFi going all the way back to Lucian writing about a ship of men flying up to the moon in the 2nd century.

        But surrounding what they often get right the authors always get things wrong too. For example, contrary to Lucian’s ideas, in reality the ship of men that flew up to the moon didn’t find a race of human like aliens that were only men who could carry children and had a bunch of gay sex with the men of Apollo-11.

        TL;DR: Correctly predicting a technology in a story doesn’t mean correctly predicting the social impact and context for that technology.

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          Why do you think we never went back?

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    If anyone is dumb enough to put anything from that dude into their head, that brain was already damaged!

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    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

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    Not as many as those still using Twitter.

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    None. And any that were damaged by it were pedo guys and it never happened.

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    Easy…all tests must be done to him before any other humans.

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      C-mon! If the linux team, microsoft, and apple eat their own dog food, why cant he?

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    None, the people who volunteer, or worse pay for this, already have brain damage!

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      Do we count those as negative numbers when the implants help them recover?

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    Sacrifice yourselfers for the eternal future Emperor God Elontron Musk.

    He will insert his X in all of our hearts.

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    I can think of one already.

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    He should grow balls and be the first person to have neurolink implanted in his brain.

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    Finally the plot of the movie “Upgrade” can become a reality

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      U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D

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        particular individual

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    Well it’ll only be fully consenting brains.

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    He’s obviously desperately trying to revive the image of being a genius again. But everybody knows what kind of charlatan he is.

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      I think he still has millions of worshippers out there.

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