Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

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    1 year ago

    This is a publicity stunt to get more funding. They are going to get some volunteers, but they won’t ever get the implants. Neuralink will just keep delaying the procedure by a year and then cancel it once the public stops paying attention.

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      This is a publicity stunt to get more funding.

      It would be if the FDA hadn’t approved this. This is the most puzzling part.

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        I don’t see Neuralink taking the legal risk, regardless of what the FDA says. The approval is part of the publicity stunt IMO.

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          I don’t think they’d care about the legal risk from people who’d sign up. However it’d be pretty bad publicity having them all die

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      I think you are hating simply because musk, they have FDA approval. People are going to get this implant in their brain, and if I remember I’ll come back here and send you a message that you were wrong when it happens.

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        Did you see the article about what they did to those monkeys?

        Any human that allows this half-baked shit near them in it’s current state should be terrified.

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          10 months ago

          I came back to this thread to prove op wrong, because I was right. Yes some poor monkies got killed but that’s because it was a half baked device, it’s sort of impossible to skip the half baked step when developing a complex device.

          Now that they are in the human stages hopefully it’s well passed half baked and into the good beta device range. Like I originally said all you guys are just hating on musk and shitting on companies he runs that are legitimately cool and doing good things for the world.

          Shit on Twitter all you want, that place is ass though

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        1 year ago

        FDA approval ain’t evidence that something is safe. See the recent approvals for anti-Alzheimers meds that have a terrible side-effect to benefit ratio.

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          10 months ago

          For sure, that’s what the testing is for. Now that a device has been put in a human it will be determined if it’s safe over many years and trials.

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            10 months ago

            If something is dangerous in animal testing, it shouldn’t reach humans. The FDA is toothless (due to underfunding and regulatory capture).