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Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains. (aus.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As The Boys lovingly put it so many years ago, "nerds is cool now and jocks is pumping our gas."

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

I think that's pretty romanticised.

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