• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Because it will encroach into everything if we let it be.

      There’s always a dumdum like you saying “it doesn’t affect you, so why do you care?”.

      Because the company implanting the chip killed a good amount of monkeys for their tests. They’re an unethical company.

      Because Elon Musk is a fucking piece of shit and he is clearly disregarding the laws if it makes him money.

      Because private, for-profit companies cannot be trusted to not fuck over everyone if it makes them a cent more.

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        You know what else killed a good amount of monkeys for their tests? Pretty much every single Class 3 medical device out there. Neuralink didn’t do anything far outside the ordinary with their tests, they just got a lot of media attention because “Elon bad”.

        Medical device testing goes through animal trials before human ones. Those trials use monkeys. Those monkeys often die. The only unusual thing about Neuralink’s tests is a lot of people pretending like they suddenly give a shit.

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          Here’s an idea, maybe stop killing animal for medical testing?

          Other companies doing the same shit isn’t any better. But with Neuralink, they said that no monkey were killed during their trials, which is false. So it makes it even worst.

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        And that’s why all those paralyzed people should just sit in their chairs and wait for eventual death, I guess.

        Seriously, just don’t get one if you think they’re so awful.

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          The issue is not the tech, it’s how it is developed and tested, and the terrible track record of the mega corpos.

          Just like AI, the tech itself is great, but corpos turn it into a pile of shit for the money.

          It won’t be different this time around with daddy Musk.

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            5 months ago

            Yeah, things would be going so much better if garage hobbyists were developing these brain implants instead.

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              Yeah because it’s either a socipath billionaire or a dusty garage hobbyist. Nothing in between.

              At the very least, the garage hobbyist has more chance to be a more ethical person.

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                One of the common arguments I hear against technological advancement is “but what if some sociopath brews up a pandemic virus in their garage!”

                The FDA is monitoring the corporations that are working on this sort of thing. As is mentioned in the title of this thread.

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      5 months ago

      Because it kills everything you put it in? I don’t know how to tell you that you’re supposed to care about other people.