Technology

59589 readers

2891 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts (www.popsci.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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

load more comments (4 replies)