85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient
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In an interview, Noland Arbaugh says the company wanted to avoid further surgery.

I’m not surprised given the person in charge, but I still feel bad for the guy. Being almost completely paralyzed, it makes total sense to jump at the chance to get some normalcy back.

I didn’t expect 85% of the wires to already detach at this point. In a just society, the whole company would be shut down and the CEO put into a bottomless pit.

  • Chronicon [they/them]English
    93•5 months ago

    the fucking trials out of australia where they successfully gave people back like their sight or hearing or whatever it was, and then the trials ended and they had to have the implants removed or disabled so the company didn’t have to keep supporting them was the most heartbreaking thing I had read that month.

    edit: I’m wrong it was stopping her debilitating seizures kitty-cri https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-implant-removed-against-her-will/

    If this is what they do now to the test subjects imagine how much worse and more insidious it can get as the tech matures

    • windowlicker [she/her]English
      47•5 months ago

      they WILL use this against people in the future. corporate non-compliance or even dissent will have your implants shut off.

      • Chronicon [they/them]English
        11•5 months ago

        yeah you’re right I was lazy and didn’t re-read the article when I posted it. But since she had effective medication she could take to stop them when the implant predicted them, its a bit potato potato. She got them under control in a way that was impossible before

        I didn’t know that about cochlear implants… geez