I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo

Re:I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo by visarga on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:05AM (#24340486)

> He also launches supposedly self-driving passenger cars into concrete barriers.

Planes used to fall a lot in the beginning, computer hardware was once finicky and unreliable, even rockets used to blow up before they got it right. Takes time, and sometimes it takes early adopters trust to get to safety.

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Re:I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo by drcongo on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:18AM (#24340964)

How many public deaths is an acceptable number? What about those dead who, rather than being "early adopters", just happened to be in the way of one - is there a line in the sand where we say "OK, we've sacrificed enough humans now, let's try something else"?

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Re:I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo by peteretep on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:18AM (#24349934)

I feel like you’re suggesting the answer is “zero deaths”, where it’s clearly _at least_ as many as the current road fatality rate, which is about 100 a day in the US alone.

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