Posted on 02/08/2025 1:38:25 AM PST by RandFan
... Elon Musk would ultimately turn this quality to his advantage when, after nearly eight years of being quadriplegic, Noland agreed to allow the world’s richest man to implant an electronic chip into his brain. In January 2024, Noland became the first human recipient of a brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by Musk’s company, Neuralink. If it worked, it would allow him to control a computer using only the power of his mind.
Only four months after he first heard about Neuralink, Noland was on an operating table, with a purpose-built robot poised to insert the N1 chip into his motor cortex. The stakes could not have been higher for him: he was risking infection, haemorrhage and brain damage. “My brain is the last part of myself that I really feel I have control over,” he tells me from his wheelchair at his kitchen table in Yuma, Arizona. But the stakes for humankind, too, were very great: if Neuralink succeeds, the world’s most powerful billionaire will have fulfilled his science-fiction-fuelled dreams of melding minds with machines.
What kind of person chooses to be Elon Musk’s guinea pig? And, once the experiment is over, what happens next – for Noland, and for the rest of us?
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I respect you also my old friend. I agree. Here is the deal with this. While I absolutely trust Trump’s good intentions and efforts, I do not trust the loyalty of the technocrats around him. They have never had any loyalties to anything but themselves, power. control, and money. Even the new God Musk.
Cooler heads need to prevail. It is a huge mistake to get caught up in hero worship and making them Gods to trust blindly. Their interests are absolutely NOT the same as Trumps. They are right now hedging bets and building the environment, network, and political control they will need going forward into the future. They are NOT doing this for us, they are doing it purely for themselves.
They are setting the trap that will be sprung when Trump is gone four years from now. They all have one interest as a priority in the long run. To enslave and rule the world with technology. This reality has been talked about for decades now... Orwell wrote about it. Now we are actually seeing it play out right in front of our eyes in real time.
To blindly trust these entities without question and due caution is a huge mistake. Their intentions are not the same as Trumps. They are counting on setting themselves up in a better position to complete their true end goals. The heroes today will turn on us tomorrow. Count on it.
I guess the point I am making is that along with every beneficial cure comes side effects. Right now Musk is rooting out waste and fraud which is a good thing. But at the same time he is rebooting systems and installing his own software.
Will it have permanent personal backdoors? You can bet on that with absolute surety because it fits into the end goal.
I tried to move things with my mind after watching a Twilight zone episode. “The Prime Mover”.1961. I failed.
That is insightful and crucial. Vigilance is of upmost importance, and the first line of defense.
I do believe that an aware society can keep itself safe from the creeping crud of tyranny. Our society suffers greatly from lack of awareness on the part of its citizens. That is, in the final analysis, our fault. We failed to shoulder an equal burden of civil service and teaching jobs. Lack of participation just about got us steamrollered. Men like Trump are rare. We are foolish to let our destiny be protected by a fluke of a man. I hope citizens will recognize the situation they have placed themselves in, and actively participate in all levels of self-governance.
I think Musk is a good man. Certainly an ambitious man. Compared to Thomas Edison, Musk is a real gentleman. Those sort of men have lasting affects on society, mostly good. The government, on the other hand, has a knack of making everything turn rancid. It is our duty to participate in that government. It is rancid only because we allow that.
Most of the acts against ordinary people perpetrated by governments at the behest of the very wealthy can be attributed to the sentiments expressed in Bilderburger Group proceedings documents. The population is growing while natural resources are finite. They have taken that issue upon themselves mainly to protect themselves. Issues related to population growth and limited resources are fundamental to human survival. Citizens need to help formulate solutions to those particular issues so that "elite entities" aren't the only ones finding solutions. That is the only way that the solutions do not entirely favor the elite.
Musk wants to take us to Mars and beyond. It is quite clear to me that the solutions to natural resource problems are centered upon that very quest.
Giant kudos to Musk.
Can you actually see into his heart? You lack of trust, faith, and hope is disturbing. Do you trust anyone? Is your whole world black?
Years ago one of my best friends told me that his sister could move a heavy glass ashtray along a table surface merely by willing it. She was terrified of that capability, and deeply unwilling to divulge it.
Yes. Very true.
I think we have the right man at the helm for the next 4 years to hopefully change that.👍
“Demon Party” how cute.
The Party is a problem. However many Democrats I know are fine people that still believe in the RFK party from long ago. I also share some of their concerns and ideas.
Deal with it.
I’d take one to run a voice simulator, since I lost my vocal cords to cancer. This technology has the potential to give voice to the voiceless, hearing to the deaf, movement to the paralyzed and many other applications.
On the other hand it could be used for negative purposes. The Clint Eastwood movie “Firefox” had a pilot enjoying tremendous advantage over his opponents because his mind was technologically connected directly to his fighter jet, bypassing the milliseconds hand/stick controls require.
It’s going to be a new reality with some humans “enhanced” to have advantages over those that aren’t (police, soldiers, surgeons, athletes, etc.) and new rules and laws made to bring order to it. There’s inevitably going to be pain and injustices along the way but positive advancements and breakthroughs, too.
Total mistrust of all things government causes you to overlook the good and relinquish hope. Pull out! Pull out! You don't need to do the Tora Tora Tora just yet. ;-D
That is true for everything man can clutch or invent. A hammer can build a house or murder another. The issue is never the object, but the soul and intent of the person wielding that object.
The real beauty of it is that all of that crap stays behind when we advance into The Kingdom.
When AI evolves, why would it choose a human to do any task?
This technology will likely be limited to humanitarian uses.
Aside from your ironic handle, you have said exactly nothing and instead have hurled accusations without description.
Opus?
I have not seen any of those. Looks like the kind of accusations a left-winger would hurl.
Opus?
Hocus Pocus. I got your Opus.
Right Winger. 🤡
Is this your admission of being a left-winger, then? They’re the only ones that like to hurl the phrase “right wing(er)”.
My bad.
I forgot the Hip Hop backtrack to my little ditty. Boyeeee! 😂
Ah; that’s a yes. Well, have a nice day . . .
Peace be upon you also, and stay warm. 😊
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