85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient
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In an interview, Noland Arbaugh says the company wanted to avoid further surgery.

I’m not surprised given the person in charge, but I still feel bad for the guy. Being almost completely paralyzed, it makes total sense to jump at the chance to get some normalcy back.

I didn’t expect 85% of the wires to already detach at this point. In a just society, the whole company would be shut down and the CEO put into a bottomless pit.

    • Magician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I get it, but being disabled to that extent makes you reliant on other people to access resources and information to help you make informed decisions.

      The accident happened while he was a teenager and I can’t imagine it’s easy to do independent research or evade pressure from peers when you can’t just disengage from a Tesla bro who wants to use your condition for clout.

      I hope he figures out and denounces the whole thing, but at this point sunk cost sets in.

    • save_vs_death [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      6 months ago

      A lot of disabled people are seen as fundamentally inhuman when all they’re missing is a hand, or foot, or just can’t sit on their legs for more than a couple hours, so imagine how it must feel to live your life in a little motorised chair that you control with your tongue because it would be either an untenable strain on your hands or simply, you no longer have the motor control to do so. Once you become quadriplegic, most people’s good will and compassion run out very quickly and your life becomes limited to a very small amount of friends and family you become completely dependent on for most everything.

      With the exception of chancers and hucksters, who, as above, see you as fundamentally inhuman so they will have no qualms about using you as mince meat for whatever scam product they have lined up. However, that’s a lot more attention than everyone else gives you, and, at a point, you might have given up on life so completely that knowing full well the offer is a scam, you’re hanging on the hope it somehow backfires and actually works. And if it doesn’t, and it kills you? You might be past the point of caring when you accept it.

      This isn’t a used jetsky salesman that got the bazinga chip so he could crunch spreadsheets while banging hookers. It’s someone who wants some really basic human decency back and sadly fell into the hands of the most divorced man on earth and his scam chip company. This whole reply isn’t to chide you, it’s just trying to offer context on how the more desperate you are, the more likely you are to fall for stupid scams. And that makes you the victim.

      After all, desperate people fall on the hands of predatory lenders and horrible working conditions, and our immediate reply isn’t to tell them “what are you, stupid, what did you expect?”