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Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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360 points danielmorozoff | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 09:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SilverElfin ◴[26 Aug 25 17:37 UTC] No.45029766[source]▶
Neuralink is amazing technology and watching videos of participants who have completely different abilities and freedom with Neuralink implants is mind blowing. It’s sad that many want to dismiss these amazing achievements just because it’s an Elon Musk founded company. At some point you simply have to acknowledge his success (and his team’s), and hope they get further with all of this.

For those interested in their clinical trials:

https://neuralink.com/trials/

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mritterhoff[dead post] ◴[26 Aug 25 17:39 UTC] No.45029790[source]▶
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fourseventy ◴[26 Aug 25 18:23 UTC] No.45030326[source]▶
For someone with a supreme lack of judgement he sure does own a lot of billion dollar companies. I strive to have the same lack of judgement that he has.
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jakeydus ◴[26 Aug 25 18:38 UTC] No.45030509[source]▶
I hope not, I'd rather have fewer narcissistic sociopaths in the world. He only cares about himself and what people think of him. Nothing he does is to benefit other people. He's not Iron Man, he's Lex Luthor.

I guess people have always idolized the creeps of the world, though.

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marknutter ◴[26 Aug 25 20:46 UTC] No.45032109[source]▶
It will never cease to amaze me how some people think they can know somebody the've never met as well as you think you do. I attribute it to projection.
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jjcob ◴[26 Aug 25 22:37 UTC] No.45033206[source]▶
This guy tweets all day and the press talks about every little thing he ever does, there are hundreds of videos of him on youtube, dozens of his employees and ex-employees telling stories about him on the net. How much more do you think you are going to learn if you actually talk to him?
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0xDEAFBEAD ◴[27 Aug 25 01:32 UTC] No.45034450[source]▶
I would argue a lot of Musk haters are not getting a representative sample of his behavior, but rather only the most outrageous things he says and does, which tend to be the things that penetrate their bubble.
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fuzzylightbulb[dead post] ◴[27 Aug 25 02:33 UTC] No.45034849[source]▶
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1. 0xDEAFBEAD ◴[27 Aug 25 03:36 UTC] No.45035199{3}[source]▶
>the kneecaping of public transit projects

Is this the thing about California high-speed rail? I looked into that when it came up on HN the other day, and concluded that Musk had basically nothing to do with the failure of that project. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299460

So -- Do you have actual solid evidence to defend this "kneecaping of public transit projects" claim? Or shall I assume that the rest of your claims are also liable to be based on half-truths and internet rumors?

Because from my POV there appears to be no end of BS floating around the internet about Musk: https://www.snopes.com/collections/musk-rumors-collection/

In any case, I'm not "defending" Musk in the sense of saying he's a good person. I'm just saying people should try to see him accurately. If you judge people negatively for giving you any information that challenges your worldview, I'd say you're basically admitting that your worldview isn't likely to be very accurate. You can persuade yourself of anything you like, if you're selective in the evidence you admit.