https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
UC Davis veterinary records cited by the Physicians Committee—which WIRED also obtained through a subsequent California public records request—chronicle a battery of complications that developed following procedures involving electrodes being surgically implanted into monkeys’ brains. The complications include bloody diarrhea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema, a condition colloquially known as “brain swelling.”
Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.
Yeah. I think I’ll pass.
That last line man. Wow.
Poor girl was in serious distress.
I think whomever it was at the FDA that approved this shit for human trials needs to be investigated. It reeks of corruption.
There are few companies products I want in my body less than from anything that Musk is involved in.
Uhhh after you Elon
So Elon is the first one to get one, right? What do you mean, he doesn’t want one?
My pop-corn is ready, any time now ^^
I can’t wait to get X advertising streamed directly into my dreams.
But I use Wayland.
Can’t wait for them to start beaming ads directly into our brains
I’m sure there’s tons of Muskrat fans who’d love one but unfortunately they don’t have brains.
I know there was a lot of ableist bigotry involved and it was problematic for even more reasons but…
Them mofos are paying for darwin awards.
There’s so much we don’t know about the brain, I can’t see implants being anywhere close to a success until the brain is significantly better understood
To be fair there are brain implants in use already but at a really simple stage (epileptic treatments, at least they did exist in like the eighties).
This is some of the coolest tech thats currently within our grasp. It will not only completely cure a lot of ailments but lead to fdvr.
Id burn alive a million monkeys if it lets some 5 year suddenly walk. Id burn double that if I can get some isekai catgirl harem going on.
We literally torture animals just to make sure makeup is safe, get mad about that. This is some serious sci fi shit that will open an insane amount of door, regardless of who is behind it. Pick you battles.
People that mindlessly hate on something just because Musk is involved are as brain dead as the ones that constantly praise him without thought.
