It is so weird that the article repeatedly acknowledges that this isn’t really unique and other companies and researchers are doing the same, but they’re only covering this one because it relates to Musk. What is it about Musk that makes every little thing he does “newsworthy”?
The man with a mind-reading chip in his brain, thanks to Elon Musk
Submitted 2 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewk49j7j1po
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jansk@beehaw.org 2 months ago
kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 months ago
It makes people click.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Probably paid them to do the article
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Richest man in the world. It’s like why was Windows so big when Linux was right there? Or why does Xbox get a push despite being inferior in every metric to Playstation?
zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Probably because musk killed a bunch of monkeys in the process of creating it.
jamie_oliver@beehaw.org 2 months ago
On the one had I’d love to be excited about the technology and on the other hand it is a privacy nightmare I know I will experience in my lifetime…
When tech reaches a certain point of adoption it is no longer optional for anyone wanting to actively participate in society. Try going without a smartphone these days for example, I did for a few years and I struggled with paying some bills, paying in popup stores that used apps for payment, managing certain subscriptions, communicating in platform specific chat groups (this is something you do out of necessity more often than you’d think…). Eventually, not having some level of BCI will probably not be an option anymore.
I really want to click things with my mind but I really don’t want people like Musk literally in my mind… Can I self host one? /s
Lemmist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, that is sad that in modern society all rich people, who have resources to make a big difference, are degenerates. And nice people who actually would like to make that difference are poor and simply cannot.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yeah, just talked to my wife about this. Imagine what good someone with Musks resources could do. Instead he chooses to go pull up the ladder behind him and making life more difficult for everyone
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That’s the thing. That’s an oxymoron. One can’t have musks resources and be a good person. To get such resources, one has, by design, to be the kind of person who thrives in Capitalism. Evil.
meliante@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If he was a good person he wouldn’t have the resources in the first place…
ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is what capitalism does by design. Resources accumulate upward until some entity forcibly redistributes it (government, populous revolution, etc). It is a system that always leads to the detriment of the many for the vanity and power of the few it deems “winners.”