An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

  • just another dev
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    -839 months ago

    Probably. Human beings also died when we were figuring out organ transplants, and still do, sometimes.

    • @gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
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      849 months ago

      Yeah the deaths from organ transplants, the risky operations performed as a last ditch effort to save patients who would otherwise die from incurable organ failure, definitely justifies killing 1500 monkeys to allow people to tweet by thinking.

      • just another dev
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        9 months ago

        If you think that’s the primary purpose of neuralink, then there’s no point discussing this with you.

    • @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      389 months ago

      A transplanted organ is considered a morbid condition in and of itself. The patient is dying, just less quickly than without the transplant.

      I’d think this might have improved with cloned organs, but I don’t think those are common enough to tell.

      Billionaires do not seem ro mind when people die for their vanity projects, and Musk is pushing this one quickly.