• db2@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We’ve all been playing Mario Kart with our minds already, using our mind to manipulate those fleshy sticks attached to our shoulders. It’s fuckin amazing.

    The only usefulness this has is to help someone who can’t do that. And the fact that it’s attached to Elon and that all previous test subjects died and that it’s still been put in a human is pretty dystopian.

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      8 months ago

      The only usefulness this has is to help someone who can’t do that.

      I can’t tell if you know that the patient is quadriplegic?

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        8 months ago

        I can’t tell if you know Musk wants everyone to buy his dangerous deadly crap.

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          8 months ago

          Maybe, but that is not particularly relevant to the article, and

          We’ve all been playing Mario Kart with our minds already, using our mind to manipulate those fleshy sticks attached to our shoulders. It’s fuckin amazing.

          is quite an ableist thing to say when the subject at hand is a literal quadriplegic person playing Mario Kart.

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                8 months ago

                Probably thinks that I’m a Elon Musk fan, when the exact opposite is true. Why denounce a Musk-owned company for improving the life of a quadriplegic person when there are a million more valid criticisms to be made?

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      8 months ago

      All previous animal test subjects died, including the majority that were euthanized at the end of the test period for dissection and study. There was a super high failure rate but let’s not misrepresent what actually happened.

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        8 months ago

        I mean, it’s at the very edge of what science can do and realistically there’s not that much else you could do except test on relatively highly developed animals. You’d kind of expect that to happen, but I don’t see a viable alternative.

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          8 months ago

          Working on the bleeding edge of scientific research does not relieve someone of treating animals with ethical consideration. A “move fast and break things” approach might be good for a startup and maybe even for a rocket company, but that approach isn’t okay if “breaking things” includes living, feeling animals.

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              8 months ago

              Use a fucking EEG device, instead of opening their skulls and messing with their brains.

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                8 months ago

                Huh, it’s almost like that has its limitations and they want to find a way past that or something…….

                Yes let’s just stop at eeg since nothing could possibly advance on that… what an absolutely asinine ignorant fucking viewpoint.

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                    8 months ago

                    Awwwh did someone learn a new word of the day and is trying to use it every chance they get? Even if it doesn’t apply at all?

                    Why are you shilling an inferior product that can’t accomplish the same thing?

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          8 months ago

          We’ve had brain-computer interfaces for DECADES, which didn’t need to be inside the skull. This isn’t bleeding-edge research, it’s just a bloody edge used to kill research subjects.

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            8 months ago

            EEG is an extremely limited tech, they are looking for a way to advance past those limitations.

            We can’t just not advance ever since someone might get hurt, that’s just asinine.