Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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/

It’s actually the other way around. Musk is getting a ton of attention even for stuff that’s inferior to what other teams are doing.

"Inferior?" Neuralink's tech is SOTA.

Before Neuralink, there was no major investment into BCI tech as far as eye could see - because medicine is where innovation goes to die. We've gone from Utah arrays in 1990 to Utah arrays in 2020. All while computing and AI - the other key enablers of neural interfaces - advanced in leaps and bounds.

Neuralink maybe. Do you remember how much attention he got for his stupid submarine during the Thai cave rescue?

I have lots of ideas. Some are great, some are ordinary, and some turn out to be embarrassingly stupid.

So does everyone else who tries to create new things. Edison had dumb ideas, too, like his mining ideas. The Wrights also had dumb ideas like their persistence with wing warping, and the canard stabilizer.

The sub thing didn't hurt anyone, it was an emergency so he didn't have much time to think about it, so really it's uncharitable to slam him for trying to help.

Do you think his rockets are dumb ideas, too? Starlink? Tesla?

I mean it hurt the guy who disagreed with it a lot, since Elon decided that because of that he was a pedophile and proclaimed that publicly

"the guy" initiated the exchange by calling Musk names on TV. Musk did not initiate it.

Vern Unsworth said that the submarine wouldn't work, Musk then called him a paedophile and tried to hire a private investigator to discredit him. Could Musk not have just accepted that yes, his idea was stupid, and not thrown false accusations with no basis at Unsworth?