Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
_number8_, another smaller horror of this is: there will 1000% be ads. zero percent chance there will not be ads. even worse, people will be understandably reticent about ads at first, and services will be advertised without ads. then they’ll become subscriptions with ads. just like everything else.
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advertising is cancer.
superduperenigma, then they’ll become subscriptions with ads
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Fester, For your comfort and convenience, this update deactivates the part of your brain that makes you think you dislike advertisements, among other bug fixes and improvements.
Sudomeapizza, It’ll just be WallE all over again!
ackzsel, The function of an ad is to manipulate your behavior. If an implant can do this directly ads aren't needed anymore.
Miclux, Regarding the brain damage, it looks like he tested it by himself.
smallaubergine, Unfortunately the damage has been on the animals. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
Funny that the very long vox article doesn't mention the wired investigation
YashaB, and it worked like a charm…
PeleSpirit, I half expect him to walk out of X with usable wings on one day. He’ll then obviously, fly too close to the sun.
db2, He’s a genius though, he’d obviously go at night when it’s dark and cooler.
squiblet, 
They got 'bid adieu' to the birds, though. Bird wasn't cool and edgy enough for Elron. He'd prefer a jet pack.
ArtVandelay, 
Icky-rus Elon
Send_me_nude_girls, Imagine delivering your vulnerable brain willingly to a troll like Musk
PsychedSy, Seems like a better use of my brain at least.
Send_me_nude_girls, Even your brain is worth more than that. Give it a hug.
FlyingSquid, 
I notice Elon has never signed up to go up in one of his rockets. I wonder how quickly he’ll sign up to get one of his brain implants?
HoloTheWolf, Whenever someone brings up a topic like this, I’m always reminded of a book I read as a kid. M.T. Anderson’s Feed
crossfadedragon, He wants to merge with ai? He can start by sleeping with mark Zuckerberg.
TwoGems, 
Hopefully his own
jtk, 
Anyone that would let that idiot near their brains already killed themselves putting light inside the body.
HerrBeter, Desperate poor being offered a few dollars
sucricdrawkcab, 
This sounds like the beginning of RoboCop 2. Specifically the part when OCP is trying to make a new RoboCop and the test RoboCops flip out. That’s kinda how I see this playing out.
crystalmerchant, More or less than the monkeys?
Starkstruck, The biggest reason to never put anything like this in your brain is the idea that they could put ads in your brain.
c0mbatbag3l, 
Even if it was medically safe that’s still your least concern when it comes to IoT devices and network security.
crystalmerchant, Could?? No, not could. Will.
kromem, I mean, the high likelihood of developing an infection in your brain seems maybe a bit more concerning, but to each their own I guess.
Sami_Uso, My initial reaction to this was that would be preferable to ads lmao
Starkstruck, Of course, I just meant more in the hypothetical ‘this technology is safe for human use and is being widely adopted’ stage.
HipsterTenZero, 
Ads are kind of like brain infections if you think about it
uriel238, 
Mad Science Needs Zombies
Stephen King could probably do a good treatment of the concept. Or AI Michael Crichton.
Whirlgirl9, 
Cyberpsychos immanent...who needs to wait for 2077...
c0mbatbag3l, Technically that kind of thing existed as far back as today in their universe.
Fades, can literally only end in disaster, just like the monkeys that were tortured to death for Musk’s neuralink bullshit (he wants to rush to human testing btw)
yoz, I read it somewhere that these monkeys are bred for testing purpose just like chickens and cows are bred for human consumption but not sure how true it is.
foggenbooty, What’s your point?
yoz, Woah! You didn’t get the point. Life must be really hard for ya. What did you understand after reading my comment ?
HerrBeter, It still fails the ethics part, lab animals are purpose bred however it should be scrutinised by a board of ethics
tekila, Just as it still makes it not right for cows and chickens it makes it not right for monkeys. Or would you be OK if I was breeding humans for slavery purposes?
lightnsfw, I’m all for it. Let any idiot that wants to allow that asshole to put a chip in their head get it. They can all speedrun themselves out of society.
Gerula, Are there people still naive enough to believe this conman?
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