Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move within a subject’s head or that the chip could overheat.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I admit, under the right circumstances, cybernetic enhancements could be cool.

    Anything connected in any way with Elon Musk is emphatically not the right circumstances, of course.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What I wouldn’t give for a cybernetic gastrointestinal tract. Maybe one where it combines a trash compactor with the butt, so I could literally shit bricks.