Basically, it will help paralyzed people of varying levels of paralysis learn to be mobile and interact with people again, basically giving people who have lost all hope their lives back.

Paralyzed man able to walk again thanks to brain implant

How a brain implant gave a woman her voice back

People just tend to get knee-jerk reactive when they associate anything with that Musk guy.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Part of the reason people have criticized Musk's in particular is because of the high rate of fatalities in the trials on monkeys. I've seen scientists commenting that it should've been pulled after the first death, considering how stringent the requirements for animal testing are, but all those issues and requirements have largely been hand-waved away.

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[+] money_loo@1337lemmy.com -8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Source?

Because that’s simply not true, animals die in laboratory environments and experiments all the time, but for some reason only one company takes any public heat.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink's Monkeys Actually Died

Elon Musk denies Neuralink monkeys died gruesome deaths, saying they live in 'monkey paradise'

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing Note: More than a year old at this point

US Animal Welfare Act links on the National Agricultural Library website

I didn't find any specifics on death rates in my search through the legalese, but I remember reading a comment sometime before Reddit killed third-party apps from somebody who works in a lab with nematodes that animals more complicated than those are regulated strictly enough that even a single death under your watch can be grounds for termination of your license when you get up to monkeys and such.

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[–] money_loo@1337lemmy.com -1 points 11 months ago

From your own sources:

Neuralink treats animals quite well compared with other research facilities, employees said in interviews, echoing public statements by Musk and other executives. Company leaders have boasted internally of building a “Monkey Disneyland” in the company’s Austin, Texas, facility where lab animals can roam, a former employee said. In the company’s early years, Musk told employees he wanted the monkeys at his San Francisco Bay Area operation to live in a “monkey Taj Mahal”, said a former employee who heard the comment. Another former employee recalled Musk saying he disliked using animals for research but wanted to make sure they were “the happiest animals” while alive.

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