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moses420bush t1_jaq5ook wrote

Reply to comment by Due-Resident-4588 in FDA reportedly denied Neuralink's request to begin human trials of its brain implant | The agency cited 'dozens' of safety issues that must be resolved before moving forward. by chrisdh79

You wouldn't but kids born into a world where it is normal wouldn't think twice. Scary.

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RaccoonProcedureCall t1_jaqiwnb wrote

It’s also scary to think of a world in which this technology becomes necessary to be competitive. I hate to imagine what would happen if no company was willing to hire someone who can’t interact with a computer as quickly as they can think, yet some people still refused to use the technology for various reasons.

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DneSokas t1_jaqn2n8 wrote

You wouldn't neccesarily have to take that kind of risk with a brain interface, its pretty easy to make a circuit that can output only so you control the computer with your thoughts but there's no return line so it still has to show the information back to you on a screen. A screen on you're eyeball if you want to be all fancy and integrated about it but a screen with no direct input to your brain beyond the usual visual means.

This is probably actually the prefered way to set up such a system because the actual implanted parts are pretty much just your peripherals meaning you can have the actual device be external which saves you a lot of unnecesary surgery every time computers get better.

Of course musk is the same guy who's proposing indentured servitude on mars so he's probably going down the mind control route if he can.

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ACCount82 t1_jaqzddd wrote

First Neuralink devices are expected to work like that. The device only scans the brain for inputs, and uses those inputs to drive peripherals like virtual mouse or keyboard. No neural feedback involved.

We don't really know what the limits of the no-feedback approach are. It could be that you would be able to achieve superhuman typing speeds on those first gen systems, with lots of practice - or that a more in-depth approach would be required for that.

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