Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn’t be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.

“They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that’s why you should invest,” Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. “And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies.”

Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.

People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren’t Elon’s claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?

https://futurism.com/neoscope/terrible-things-monkeys-neuralink-implants

@technology #Elon #Neuralink #ElonMusk

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    Someone put it well, if insensitively, about Sam Bankman Fried (FTX etc):

    Not actually smart but just LARP-ing the “Aspy genius” persona.

    However accurate that take is or offensive, I think it captures something about how nerd culture has gone mainstream and how it’s perceived.

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      ‘nerd’ has disappeared as an insult now that we’re all on the computer all the time

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          I think that’s pretty romanticised.

          Assuming they leave their home town many end up in sales or similar making really good money.