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Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board
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Wish.com Mengele may finance crude deregulated surgeries on bazinga volunteers for now but I see no reason this isn’t going to be further expanded to prisoners (at first, of course, coerced “volunteers” with inflated sentences hoping for a sentence reduction) and other oppressed groups over time.
expanded to prisoners
I can imagine the plot of a 1980s sci-fi dystopia movie where the evil billionaire says “The implant means they will get time off for good behavior. Or they’ll die an serve a useful purpose.” In the real world it’s ~50 years later and the movie’s flaw is that the evil billionaire is ~100 times as rich.
In the present day I can easily see a liberal spin on it in newsrags that says something like “sorry, hate to break it to you, but like it or not, chipping prisoners is improving the future for humans and making those prisoners repay their debt to society in a humanity-saving way, actually.”
We’re at the point of medical experimentation on undesirables now
Billionaires get in the hole
It’s coercion under pretense of choice. And it won’t stop here.
If Elon really wants to look innovative smart and cool by advancing cybernetics why the fuck did he start with the part of the body that is crucial and will instantly kill you if something goes wrong? Why not just make like, cool futuristic robot arms that have electronics in them or something
If Elon really wants to look innovative smart and cool by advancing cybernetics why the fuck did he start with the part of the body that is crucial and will instantly kill you if something goes wrong?
Because he has zero patience for any of the practical steps of scientific progress and just wants the noise, spectacle, and above all else, the praise and worship of everyone possible.
the part of the body that is crucial and will instantly kill you
I think you answered your own question. He wants to play god and messing with the brain is more fun for him. And if he kills somebody and their family sues him for $100m - what does he care? He can spend literally millions on legal fees to drag the case out for years and years to try to break them. He gets to play god again.
If he wins - he’s on cloud nine. If it looks like he might lose - he can offer them a deal - the money with an NDA. Then he can have private detectives and tech bros follow them around for years and if they break the NDA - he’ll fuck with them by suing them.
I just made myself throw up in my mouth.
Listen if I can’t be turned into Jax from Mortal Kombat, then I’m just not gonna care.
I will settle for no less than mantis blades
Why stop at Jax?
I wanna be Cyrax or if possible, the Cyborg Sub-Zero
Possibly part of his techbro fetishisation of immortality. Get the NPCs to crash test the implants and speed development, then something something, post-singularity godmind ruler of the internet (who the meatspace slaves all think is Really Cool because of their nerve staples).
I wonder if
’s chud following will complain about this as much as they like to complain about vaccines. 
Of course, I already know the answer.
comically oversized syringe with a microchip floating in it
comically oversized syringe with a microchip floating in it
I feel like finding out this has already occurred would explain a lot of blue check tweets.
This fucking idiot is going to get people killed. Paralyzed people, even, vulnerable people.
Even for those that escape that outcome, they will be carrying proprietary bazinga tech that can brick at any moment that the private corporation decides to cut and run. It already happens with other cybernetic devices and it’s an understated problem affecting thousands of people already.
I hate intellectual property so goddamn much
Before it’s posted here, no, fuck you in advance, this shit is not “objectively” going to improve humans as a species with a few rough patches on the way there or some bazinga take like that. Fuck you.
Neuralink says it is looking for patients with quadriplegia due to vertical spinal cord injury or ALS. Participants will have a BCI surgically implanted using a proprietary robot in a region of the brain that controls movement, with the goal of enabling them to control a computer cursor or a keyboard using just their thoughts. The study will evaluate the safety and functionality of the technology, according to a statement.
We tied your motor cortex to this GUI, can you feel the freedom yet?
Oh fuck oh fuck they’re DDOSing my nervous system again
DDoSSRI
DDoS PDD-NOSThey hack my body and make me rob a bank
Nobody on this board is going to come stick up for Elon you don’t have to worry
It’s happened before, and recently.
The now-banned user said what I said above, that sure it’s bad and all, but that (some selfish and fantastical imaginary version of) leftism would actually benefit from the first waves of volunteers dying so the technology can ostensibly be perfected and made “to serve the people.” It was their terms, not mine, to describe it as “improving humans as a species” “with a few rough patches on the way there.”
In short, the Mengele benefits will trickle down, someday. Because leftism.
That user is now banned so I guess the system works
Interpretation
Due to its title and the content of the music video, the song is frequently assumed to be either an animal rights song or a reference to the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram described in his book Obedience to Authority (1974). It is neither, but the Gabriel song “We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37)” from his fifth studio album So (1986) does deal directly with Milgram.
Gabriel has described “Shock the Monkey” as “a love song” that examines how jealousy can release one’s basic instincts; the monkey is not a literal monkey, but a metaphor for one’s feelings of jealousy. Gabriel has mentioned that the song’s lyrical motif was inspired by King Kong’s lightning powers in the film King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962).
Previously you couldn’t feel your legs now they’re in constant pain that’s progress
You made me think of One by Metallica with a change that all he can feel is the pain of limbs that aren’t even there.
