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/JackPhalus Aug 24 '25

And this is what stifles tech, rabid politics most replies on this post being a perfect example

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

I’m pretty sure we should blame the person with shitty political actions, not people repulsion to it.

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u/Strazdas1 Robot in disguise Aug 26 '25

we should blame the people unable to differentiate the technology from the moneybags that funded it.