Posted on 12/19/2022 10:40:07 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have both reportedly invested in Synchron, a new brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
On Thursday, Synchron announced that it had completed a funding round of $75 million, with Bezos Expeditions contributing a portion of the investment. The round was led by ARCH Venture Partners and included investment from Gates Frontier, the venture capital branch of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, as well as other investors. In addition, several previous investors, including Khosla Ventures and its founder, Vinod Khosla, who introduced Oxley to Gates, also participated in the funding round.
Brain-computer interfaces, also known as BCIs, have the potential to interpret and stimulate certain areas of the brain and are being explored as a possible treatment for brain injuries.
Elon Musk claims that Neuralink is also close to human trials. As Breitbart News reported:
Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink aims to start implanting its brain implants into human patients within six months. A Pew poll in early 2022 found that only 13 percent of Americans believe that Musk’s brain chips will be good for society.
Musk said that Neuralink’s device, which has been refined over the past years, would be implanted into people using a robot that carves out a piece of their skull and attaches the device to their brain. Discussions with the FDA mean that the company can plan to begin it’s first human trials in the next six months, he said.
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What could possibly go wrong here?
They’ll test it on 8 mice and declare it safe and effective.....
Copycat dorks without a new idea in their warped brains
I will say, I believe something like this could be a Godsend for people who are paralyzed or have some kind of neuromuscular condition.
But like all things that have duality (and most do) like a hammer you can use to build a beautiful table with, or you could use it to bash someone’s brains in, this has a potential evil side to it that seems bottomless and black to me.
This is how “you will own nothing and be happy” takes place.
Trans-humanism is the ultimate goal. The elites can rule with a servant class controlled and harmonious.
Those refusing will be branded terrorists and threats to their utopia.
This will happen because youth today have no direction, no independent thought and nothing to live for.
This will happen because we have devalued life (not just via abortion) but via denigration of people they disagree with
This will happen because individual identity is meaningless, no male, no female, no unique characteristics.
Once trans-humanism is in place, the pawns can be anything they want and will be content with their lives of servitude to the ruling class.
Breeding will only be allowed for purposes of replacement.
Elites will breed among themselves as they are the superior DNA.
This is all a short time away from happening.
Musk said his chips will eventually cure dementia and alert you to cancer years in advance and weeks before you have a heart attack orstroke.
Better than laying in a bed drooling wearing a diaper while some attendent washes your butt.
Sign me up.
SMH
They’ll test it on 8 mice and declare it safe and effective...But all the ferrets will die...
“Those refusing will be branded terrorists and threats to their utopia.”
I suspect they’ll go along willingly. I was watching the Turning Point event and the Project Veritas guy told everyone to hold up their cellphones and turn the light on. I couldn’t believe it, everyone had one. That was creepy.
Could be that companies stop hiring people without a brain chip.
I wonder if a work ethic could be coded in there? If so, I’ll take 3 for my team.
“Elites will breed among themselves as they are the superior DNA.”
The dental field. That’s the field you want to get into in the future.
All you need to do is slightly stimulate the brain's pleasure center when they do right and reduce stimulation when they do wrong.
It is already possible in a laboratory using magnetic fields.
How about spending the time and resources curing the side effects of the covid “vaccines” before hacking peoples grey matter?
That's what my wife does to me! I'm being manipulated. I knew it. I just knew it.
“Trans-humanism is the ultimate goal”.
That’s it, exactly.
“I wonder if a work ethic could be coded in there? If so, I’ll take 3 for my team”.
It will be the work ethic of a robot. You might as well have robots working for you because that’s what they’d turn into.
there are thousands of potential applications for this sort of tech. The problem is that big tech has repeatedly shown that it cannot be trusted with the best interests of the people within which the tech would be deployed. It would never ever ever be to your ultimate benefit to trust them.
I’ll take that over my three turds.
“I’ll take that over my three turds”.
At least they are human.
Why don’t you simply replace them?
People will only want a brain chip when it offers them *personally* something very valuable. This does not mean “offers their employer”, or “offers someone else” like the government.
In past, brain chips have been proposed to make up for ‘deficiencies’, like tremors or seizures. So moving from say -75 to -5 was worth it.
But what brain chip will offer a person at 0 a change to +75 or even +100?
Other than that, to quote Woody Allen, “My brain? That’s my second favorite organ!”
I’m sure there are people who would take the gamble, just because Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates think it’s a neat idea, but most people are smarter than that.
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