Right? Is anyone else grateful knowing that we're building medical devices that can help us connect with fully disabled people like they're humans again?

Die Gedanken sind frei,
wer kann sie erraten,
sie fliehen vorbei
wie nächtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen,
kein Jäger erschießen,
es bleibet dabei:
die Gedanken sind frei.

I am self-employed. So myself, I guess.

I would explain it to you - but you would need the brain implant to understand the context completely. Are you interested in getting the implant now?*

* (Post may or may not be sponsored by the brain implant company)

Well then hell yea, it's likely you won't be coerced into it's use. Though sticking to my original prediction, that means you won't be the demographic it gets marketed to or pushed upon.

I don't think it's expected that the average person will be jumping at the opportunity to tinker with their neurons. The first line of people to get such implants will almost certainly be people with physical disabilities.

Regarding closed source ultimately being a net negative to your well being, I think you're absolutely right. Unfortunately with as niche as a product like this will be for some time, I worry any corporation willing to put forward the funding isn't going to be willing to open it up to such a degree.

that's where regulators step in, do you honestly believe elon musk would not be implanting healthy people with neuralinks if regulators would allow? They won't, this is tech for people whose lives are so awful that not having one is worse than the things that may go wrong, for a very, very long time.

I suspect you are all too right.

I didn't think an old nazi with 32 felonies would be the leader of the free world, I've been surprised a few times in my life but nothing really does it anymore.

Can you say your statement could hold up against 50 years of future trends? Transhumanism? Fanatics who want it so bad that they make it law?

For that matter, who's regulating Ai right now?

No. "Don't immediately assume he's doing the same exact evil" is not the same as "be nicer".

At the least, it's "assume other bad motives perhaps".

My thought is this is just another way to milk money from others. That simple. Not "let's bribe govts".

If it's assumed he's doing the exact same as Musk, then we either prepare to undo the damage incorrectly, or waste time looking at the wrong stooge.

Not saying represent by any stretch.

If I need X thing to survive, I'd rather get it from a pure and innocent source... If that's not possible, I'd rather it from the dude with too many boats who charges too much money than the one actively gloating about destroying lives literally and on a much higher scale.

Yes I know lesser evil etc... This isn't a philosophy course and I don't need what they're selling. But many do potentially and I'd rather minimize damage than just let the absolute worst be the default.

They've existed for awhile for people with certain disabilities and further advancements in the field would be great for the people who actually need them, but outside of that niche most people would likely not want to risk a highly invasive surgery and I don't think they actually care about them.

Is there an open source equivalent then?

HL3 is going to be launched with Valve’s brain chip.

The headcrabs feel like headcrabs!

had pass on all this bullshit.

Medicine in the US is very expensive. There is a lot of money in helping with neurological conditions or paralysis.

The startup here is making stuff for medical conditions, not games.

No, it won't hold up for 50 years, but if you don't want one don't get it?

If they could make them small / sensitive enough to make them subdermal, without the risky brainsurgery, that would be an absolute gamechanger and would increase acceptance by a lot. if the process would be like getting a few piercings under local anesthesia, it would make servicing the hardware much less of a life and death decision, and i wouldn't mind getting something like that - especially if it's on the hackability scale of a steam deck lol

All these brain chips will primarily, initially, be for crippled people. Maybe a controller chip to control prosthetic arms, or something to let a paraplegic person control a computer.