Elon Says Second Human Trial of Brain Chip to Start Soon, Despite Various Disasters

I keep thinking about how the Tesla “Full Self-Driving” actually says in the fine print that you have to keep your hands on the wheel at all times or the car will crash and you will die.

How do you apply that to a brain chip?

“Keep your thoughts focused at all times or you will have a mental breakdown”?

The Guardian:

The Neuralink CEO, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday that the company would soon test its pound-coin-sized implant and brain-computer interface on a second patient. The unnamed patient’s surgery is slated for “the next week or so”, Musk said.

Surgery on a different patient intended to be the second participant in Neuralink’s human trial had been scheduled for late June but was delayed when they experienced unspecified health issues contraindicating the procedure.

The same day, the company announced that the wires attaching the first Neuralink patient’s brain to the implant in his skull had become “more or less very stable” after detaching months ago.

“Once you do the brain surgery it takes some time for the tissues to come in and anchor the threads in place, and once that happens, everything has been stable,” said the Neuralink executive Dongjin “DJ” Seo during a live stream late on Wednesday on Twitter/X.

Neuralink, founded by Musk, had said in May that a number of wires inside the head of Noland Arbaugh, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down, had pulled out of position. The company did not specify why the detachment had occurred. Neuralink’s implant uses 64 wires to link to the brain; just 15% of them were working after the connection severed.

Air was trapped in Arbaugh’s head after the surgery, Neuralink executives said. In light of that and the detachment, the company would implement new risk mitigation measures such as skull sculpting and reducing the carbon dioxide concentration in the blood to normal levels in its future patients, the company’s executives said during the live stream.

Elon Musk is the single biggest and fattest fraud in all of human history. I have watched these Cybertruck videos. I’ve watched probably twenty hours of them. This shit is absolutely ridiculous. He is selling these things for $100,000 and they are absolute garbage. If he was selling them for $15,000 as a joke, it would be like “okay well, I don’t really think that’s funny, but okay.”

Instead he acts like it’s the Batmobile, and nothing works, and there is no service. If the mysteriously-placed gearbox falls off they tell you to use double-sided tape to put it back on.

You’re going to let this asshole put a computer chip in your brain?

I’ll tell you this: Joe Rogan is a moron. I have heard him go on and on about how Elon is an ultra genius, and how his brain is constantly working, coming up with new math equations. Meanwhile, the only thing we know about him is that he makes very poorly designed vehicles and rockets, and smokes pot and plays Diablo 4 all day.

Hooking your brain to the internet is probably not a really good idea in the first place. But if you were going to do that, you would want it to be done by Google, or some Chinese company. You would not want Elon Musk to do that to your brain.