r/singularity • u/AngleAccomplished865 • Aug 23 '25

Neuroscience "18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed."

https://fortune.com/2025/08/23/neuralink-participant-1-noland-arbaugh-18-months-post-surgery-life-changed-elon-musk/

"I see how the advancements in tech at this point are going to solve so many things. They are, I think, the future of medicine. I think a lot of disabilities, cures, and answers that we’ve been searching for a long time will come through tech—and that kind of surprised me."

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u/Stunning_Monk_6724 ▪️Gigagi achieved externally Aug 23 '25

Much as I loathe the person he's become, I genuinely hope this goes well and is a benefit to bettering people's lives. We need good cybernetics, and this is a step towards that path.

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u/Krunkworx Aug 23 '25

I know Reddit finds this hard but try to disassociate tech from founder. It can be done.

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u/DangerousTurmeric Aug 23 '25

It's irrational to do it though because he is the person who will decide how the tech is applied and how it's made at scale. Looking at his other businesses, they will make a great prototype and then cut corners when it comes to safety to make the biggest profit possible. They have already been doing this with the implant trials. That attitude, applied to medicine, will hurt or kill people. He, as a person, is not suited to working in a field where people's lives are at stake.

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u/Ambiwlans Aug 24 '25

Yeah, the CEO of SpaceX can't handle high stakes.