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I don't know why, I have zero reason to even think this. Maybe it's my growing distaste for Musk and his bullshit. But something about this whole thing has my "press X to doubt" meter going off the charts.
If I'm wrong. Great. But something in my gut tells me that you don't just go from multiple dead test subjects and a steven king novel's worth of FDA investigations, to suddenly having someone using it perfectly fine with no side effects.
Again, this is all allegedly. I have no proof or evidence either way. It's just my own gut. So don't sue me, Elon.
We've been able to do this for years. The difficult part has been making it cheap, reliable and non-invasive. Electrodes in the brain degrade neural tissue and... There's good reason this isn't done on the regular.
You're right to be sceptical, considering Musk's other company - Tesla - faked self-driving footage on his direction. The videos were just straight up edited to generate hype while in reality the product was still failing during internal testing.
Why? Because time and time again it has been shown that Musk's big bold ideas are shaky prototypes based on lies that just blagged it long enough for him to find someone who could kind of make something work. It's a complete coin toss as to whether it actually works out or not, but it will be despite Musk not because of him.
What this article doesn't tell you is that before neuralink, this patient absolutely hated turn-based strategy games. But now the only thing they can do is play Civ 6. Day or night, doesn't matter, Civ 6 is the only thing in their brain. Just one more turn. Just one... more... turn...