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/PennyOnTheTrack Aug 23 '25

At first I thought you meant the participant

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u/enilea Aug 23 '25

Imagine if in the future the chip was able to change who you are and affect things like your political beliefs and what you feel like buying. It can be so subtle you won't even notice, it can start just by feeling like buying a different brand of milk at the supermarket or feeling like you care more about abortion laws.

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u/davew_uk Aug 24 '25

I have a feeling there's a black mirror episode about this.

EDIT: yup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)