#Musk friends R making money by selling access to stakes in his private companies. A coterie of his associates tightly control the entry point to hard-to-get shares investors covet particularly in #SpaceX, #xAI, #Neuralink #BoringCompany per WSJ . A business w 2,000 “holders of record” is legally required to disclose financial information like a public company. 1 way to avoid that is for existing investors to sell shares of holding companies that own stakes in the Musk businesses to outsiders.
How long before Felon Muscovite uses his #neuralink technology to "fix" the "sexual deviants" (#LGBTQ+) and "#homegrowns"?
He has the means (Neuralink), the data (that #DOGE stole), and the motivation (hates #woke, thinks empathy is a weakness, is a #fascist). His Government already ignores the courts.
He needs human victims to perfect his device and going public may give him the momentum he needs.
#Nazis in concentration camps did the exact same thing; horrible human experiments.
He has already stated he wants to use this tech to fix #paraplegics
He has zero morals not to try to "fix" the "broken" woke.
Just asking the question!
Bloomberg: Musk's #Neuralink eyes fundraise at $8.5 billion valuation https://archive.ph/ODYYx "Elon Musk's Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion"; #BCI #NeuroTech
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#Neuralink a obținut aprobarea FDA pentru un implant cerebral mai puțin invaziv decât cele produse de compania lui #Musk.
Neue 
Folge 
! Werden wir alle zu Cyborgs? Wir widmen uns der Verschmelzung von Mensch und Maschine: über Prothesen zu bionischen Lösungen und beleuchten die ethischen sowie gesellschaftlichen Fragen im Zusammenhang mit Brain-Computer-Interfaces (#BCI). Entweder hier: https://www.letztens.de/podcast-episode/e003-werden-wir-langsam-aber-sicher-zu-cyborgs-wearables-augmentations-bcis-etc/ oder überall wo mensch #Podcast hören kann.
hot goss re: elon's "legion" of kids
https://archive.ph/EtMgF
Neben der rechten Ideologie des "Transhumanismus", den #ElonMusk mit #Neuralink-Hirnchips und ähnlichem vorantreiben möchte, sind Leute wie er auch Fans des Longtermismus, den sie mit ihrem Einfluss zu propagieren versuchen.
'As I have previously written, longtermism is arguably the most influential ideology that few members of the general public have ever heard about. Longtermists have directly influenced reports from the secretary-general of the United Nations; a longtermist is currently running the RAND Corporation; they have the ears of billionaires like Musk; and the so-called Effective Altruism community, which gave rise to the longtermist ideology, has a mind-boggling $46.1 billion in committed funding. Longtermism is everywhere behind the scenes — it has a huge following in the tech sector — and champions of this view are increasingly pulling the strings of both major world governments and the business elite.'
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Science Corp., which was started by #Neuralink co-founder to develop a retina and #brain implant system, has raised over $100M
I don't use LLMs for anything meaningful (I have tried them, just to help understand how they work). I think the reason is something like this:
1. In would be really keen on a computer <-> brain interface. The possibilities are fascinating.
2. But only if it was:
- open source,
- understandable (not black-box), and
- not corporate-controlled.
So neuralink is a fuck no. I think the visceral discomfort with and repulsiveness of the idea of someone like Elon Musk having direct access to your brainstem should be obvious to anyone half-sane.
3. LLMs are not quite the same thing, but they are definitely in some kind of uncanny-valley of similarity. The link is linguistic, and not electrical, but that's just one level of abstraction away. And they fail all three criteria in point 2 (at least all of the commercial ones do, I don't have the energy or impetus to set up my own, I'd rather just do the learning myself).
#BDS All Things Musk related #Starlink #SpaceX #RocketLab #Neuralink #Tesla #X #xAI #FloridaStarship #DraperFisherJurvetson #TheFoundersFund #ValorEquity #ZipLine #BetaTechnologies #AxiomSpace #Astranis #TheBoringCompany boycott divest sanction
#China avanza en los implantes cerebrales y pone presión sobre #Neuralink
Cette semaine sur Oxytude, l'actu des nouvelles technologies et de l'accessibilité.
#Apple #iOS #iPadOS #macOS #watchOS #VoiceOver #Reedy #BrailleBlaster #Kinepolis #Greta #Neuralink #HandiVision
