Neuralink's First Human Patient Able To Control Mouse Through Thinking, Musk Say...

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      This one time in a highly prestigious but public place such as a court-house, a person on my team said good thing. A person we don't like from the other team said a bad thing in reply. Then they said a very bad thing. Then they said something even more bad, and this included buzzwords. But then a person on my team said good thing and a bad thing about the person on the other team and everyone clapped and cheered.
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      I mean, if you had to choose between "bankrupted five casinos" and "started five new wars" would you choose the wars?

      You don't have to. Bobby may avoid assassination despite being refused Secret Service protection by his opponent and the LP will probably run somebody with ethics.

      Of course voting still isn't mandatory so supporting the system through compliance isn't required.

      There's never a need to vote for a scumbag and if you do you're morally culpable for his actions.

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        Who started five wars, Reagan?

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  The killed all the primates... so are they going to release his name so we have a chance to keep track of his demise?

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    Who is "The" and why did he/she/it kill all the primates?

    Is "The" another name for the propofol administered at the end of terminal procedures, where a specimen which had been preselected to be killed at the end of a procedure to study their brain is terminated?

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      It’s the stuff of nightmares. Imagine it from the view of the primate. https://www.wired.com/story/el... [wired.com]

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  That settles it then. Whatever Musk say is the gospel truth, right?

  
  
  Yes, just like his "robot" which can fold clothes [forbes.com] or when he said the car was driving itself [arstechnica.com].

  
  
  It's all true because he said it's true. Just like Twitter is a "free speech" zone yet the thin-skinned carp keeps suspending accounts exercising that "free speech", such as the one which figured out he had a bot account praising his own tweets [dailydot.com]. That account was suspended on Sunday and the owner has since deleted his entire account not on

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  But...you did write something...

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    Virtue signaling is part of the compulsive disorder cluster. Very frequently comorbid with obsessive.

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  so matrix style click farm. got it.

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    Morpheus got it wrong. He thought we were batteries, turned out we were ad and social media bots...

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  These sorts of things - and I say that because this isn't unique work - generally involve the patient trying to visualize the goal, while a neural network that reads the signals from the brain learns to distinguish that signal from unrelated signals. In time, the wetware neural network (the brain) and the artificial neural network both home in on a more innate interaction.

  (The brain is extremely good at adopting new senses, prostheses, etc... it's not fundamentally limited to just those that humans are born

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  No, they didn't telepathically cause the physical mouse to move. Is that what you were expecting, based on the summary? I mean, I'm generally on your side with this sort of stuff, words matter. But calling out this one seems to be leaning towards the pedantic side.

  FTA: "...adding that the initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts."

  • I was expecting the physical mouse to move

    Granted, TFA said "mouse cursor and keyboard" but that still had me thinking "a hardware button on a hardware keyboard will be depressed and un-depressed."

    Why would I think this?
    * With all the talk about brain-computer or brain-spine interfaces being used to control hand and other muscles, that seems like an obvious conclusion.
    * Even if it's not a "computer bridge" from brain-to-body, it would be very useful to have the computer-brain interface control a robotic hand that moved a mouse or typed. Not just f

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  If they had rigged it to a robot moving a mouse, would have been equally as effective, but pointless, as it could have been as equally limiting and still described the same way.

  Were you perhaps looking for a demonstration that it is ready for controlling prostetic limbs in a more arbitrary capacity? I'm working to find your point here..

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  Yeah but back then they didn’t use a massive sewing machine that went BBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRBBBBBPPPPPPPPP as it staples the implant into your jello.

  
  
  Progress!