This is fascinating, although I’d be leery as hell about something that killed a bunch of the test animals.
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I would wager that we are blissfully unaware of how many test animals have been killed by products that we use every freaking day
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See this way you can use your Neuralink implant to have your Starlink connected Optimus robot pilot your Solar City charged Tesla through Boring Company tunnels to your SpaceX launched Starship, facilitating a nice virtual vacation on Mars and post those vacation photos on X
I will say, if this can lead us to a point where when we activate it, we can feel and see and do (in our mind) things that we normally couldn’t, that would be incredible. Walking on mars. Being superman. hell being a hummingbird, why not?
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but then the microwave dings and you have a massive stroke 
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and , what if the implant a trick by uncle Sam to control you or your mind?
I’d be more worried about musk adding a subscription package to it or you constantly get interrupted by viagra ads.
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More likely they make it cause ED or other ailments than sell you the “cure”
The old virus scam but for your body/mind
Do they have brain chip yet that allows you to believe the Lions won the super bowl? Asking for a friend. 
On a serious note… hard pass on putting experimental chips in my brain.
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Then it would be Microsoft or Apple
Things will get interesting when they figure out how to transfer organic matter to a computer. Your brain would die and an emulator would take over. You could technically live forever.
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right but it’s not ‘you’ just a pretend you. so to others you’d still be ‘alive’ but you would be long gone.
Same here. I don’t want to be the old guy that rails at new technology.
But, I can think of about 10 ways that could go very poorly, very quickly, without even pausing to think of the ‘deeper’ problems. My mind is my own, thank you very much. It’s my crazy nuthouse, you are not invited in…
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I can however see things that would help make connections. I’d really like to see help with establishing connection in severed spine paralysis, or the work that has been done helping parkinson sufferers, which is incredible to watch.
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Nope
The CIA put a chip in my brain… 
Any chance to quote Dirty Work I will take it…
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If you start quoting Cabin Boy, then this crosses over from BFFs into creepy mind-reader stuff.