• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    2 年前

    A blind/paralyzed person might feel a bit differently about that. Healthy people getting brain implants for fun is quite far in the future. That is not the intended usecase for Neuralink at this time.

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      blind/paralyzed person might feel a bit differently about that.

      Yeah, because they’re forced into that position due to circumstance.

      Which is exactly why able-bodied people should be free to criticise this model and call for open source alternatives.

      To protect people that have been rendered incapable of protecting themselves.

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      2 年前

      Sure but experimental technology is still pretty risky, especially with Musk’s companies tendency to cover up any issues. Ending up brain damaged on top of blind and paralyzed would be a nightmare.

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      A blind person? Sure - there are ways to “cure” blindness by inserting chips into the brain, so I’ll give them a pass. Paralyzed people, on the other hand, won’t regain control of their own limbs, only have external actuators respond to their thoughts - we already had that technology. We’ve had it for decades, without the need of a brain implant.