The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died

Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by emmet on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:34AM (#37610290)

Fucking grim that you can read about monkeys being stabbed in the brain with metal pins and ultimately dying and just shrug your shoulders, then complain about people who'd like to stop killing animals for a billionaire's vanity project. A great way to prevent suffering is to not do things like this in the first place. Psychopath behaviour.

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Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by Zetobal on Friday September 22, 2023 @07:59AM (#37610841)

Probably the TheGreaterGood™ excuse.

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Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by emmet on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:25AM (#37611079)

Can’t wait until the greater good of downloading racist tweets directly into your brain

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Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by refurb on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:06AM (#37612239)

You sound unhinged.

I've worked in labs that do animal testing. It's not done unless there are no alternatives. Animals are very well taken care of and every attempt is made to eliminate any pain or suffering.

But hey, if you're so against animal testing you should stop using anything that's been testing on an animal. That would be the logical thing. So no cancer drugs, no antibiotics, or practically any other medical.

Then you can tell me how "useless the suffering is"

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Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by Capricorn2481 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:57AM (#37623829)

We're talking about a brain implant so a billionaire can stuff your brain full of SaaS. We're not talking about cancer drugs. Nobody is advocating against animal testing, we're exercising discretion over what is worth testing on animals.

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Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by refurb on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:32PM (#37629634)

If you bothered to google the goal of Neuralink you'd realize it's "enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts".

I don't know about you, but that sounds like a very worthwhile goal.

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Re:The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Died by foverzar on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:21PM (#37624643)

> you can read about monkeys being stabbed in the brain with metal pins and ultimately dying and just shrug your shoulders > Psychopath behaviour

Meet a typical medical student. Ever opened an anatomic atlas?

Please don't condescendingly diagnose other people for "psychopathic behavior" when you don't seem to be able to figure out the basic functioning of your fellow human, hastily dehumanizing them.

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