Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed

Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by orbital-decay on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:05AM (#45035659)

The supposedly cynical comment above talks about giving quadriplegic people a reliable way to control computers for <$100k, something that was science fiction before. Is this what you call exploitation of the poor and desperate by the wealthy? You have to finance things somehow, or they won't be done at all.

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Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by p_v_doom on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @02:55AM (#45036269)

There are many ways to finance this without strapping a parasite to leech off of it on top

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Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by lmm on Thursday August 28, 2025 @12:54AM (#45048518)

Are those many ways to finance it in the room with us right now?

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Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:34AM (#45052690)

See “all the right things to do haven’t been tried yet!”.

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Re:Neuralink 'Participant 1' Noland Arbaugh says his whole l... by orbital-decay on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:31AM (#45035770)

As much as I dislike (current) Musk, the comment I'm responding to clearly wasn't about that. Do you see this work being done by anyone else? I don't. And yes, it has the potential to turn dystopian, sure. Don't let it. I don't know how some people manage to see everything as strictly black and white.

Being called a bot was unexpected, to put it mildly.

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