Neuralink - demo with a paralysed person.

Will implants like this solve things like Dementia and Alzheimer's?
there's increasing evidence that Alzheimers and possibly dementia are caused by excess sugar intake - they are starting to call Alzheimers "type 3 diabetes", so if its being caused by brain damage then unlikely this will help much with that, this helps people who lose specific contacts with the outside world, so inputs and outputs, but internally not so much
 
I think you're just angry that he's involved in this tbh.
your the one comparing the bandwidth of 20 year old tech...

it's like comparing a a cpu from 2006 and comparing it to one from now.....

then complaining the 2006 cpu was bad because it lacks bandwidth etc....... how hard some people have to stick up for elon ......


he should release a cpu and then his fans can tell us how he invented the microchip
 
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your the one comparing the bandwidth of 20 year old tech...

it's like comparing a a cpu from 2006 and comparing it to one from now.....

then complaining the 2006 cpu was bad because it lacks bandwidth etc....... how hard some people have to stick up for elon ......


he should release a cpu and then his fans can tell us how he invented the microchip
20+ year old consumer tech vs current experimental tech even.

It's like comparing a desktop processor from 20 years ago with a the sort of CPU they're running in high end professional systems or servers.

I wouldn't even be surprised if a modern version of the old gimmick headsets could do much more now, simply because the cost of the signal processing needed has dropped massively whilst the sensors have improved in sensitivity etc.
 
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your the one comparing the bandwidth of 20 year old tech...

it's like comparing a a cpu from 2006 and comparing it to one from now.....

You brought up and made the comparison, I'm simply pointing out that it's not a particularly good one.

We had electric vehicles in the past; milk floats in the 1980s etc. pre-Tesla we've had touch screen mobile phones in the 90s pre-iphone. It's rather ridiculous to be so dismissive and try and pretend that something isn't innovative just because you're making a superficial comparison to previous tech.

he should release a cpu and then his fans can tell us how he invented the microchip

But he didn't claim to be the first to have wired up someone's brain.
 
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I don’t care how many people claim it will never be possible because of physics, but warp speed will happen in the very distant future.

Aren’t we already getting close to the Star Trek type impulse power engines?
Ish:
An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive ions from a neutral gas by ionizing it to extract some electrons from its atoms. The ions are then accelerated using electricity to create thrust.
The thing that will get us faster than light, or near light speed travel is cheap access to space (which is seeing great progress).

Innovation is more likely when you can fail cheap and often as ideas and designs evolve - even a few years a go you needed the resources of a nation state to put something in orbit.

We're not many years away from small businesses and private citizens being able to get stuff in orbit at this rate.
 
I hope brain signal inferencing can evolve to where all I need to do is wear a headset and I can control my PC without a mouse and keyboard, just be thinking all the actions on the PC happen. But I dont want a chip in my head no thanks, a headset is the max I'll tolerate
 
Yep, I'm quite sure Elon Musk will be the first to do some sort of life extension. Although he may be slightly too old.. maybe zuckerberg

This totally normal and not at-all weird billionaire is already trying everything he can to extend life including swapping blood with his 17 year old son as well as a bunch of other weird stuff.

 
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