boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoNeuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1starstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down110
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minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 months ago if they have learned something, is there something preventing it to be applied to the first patient. That’s part of what makes me see this as a really bad look. “Install it deeper” isn’t rocket science, and it sounds like their first volunteer is willing. They just want the extra data from leaving their first volunteer where they landed. Human subject experiments are supposed to carry more long term obligation than this.
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-26 months agoSeriously. My father was part of a Deep Brain Stimulation trial. Their follow up was for ten years, just for the trial. The implant itself lasted his entire life, which I’m not feeling like doing the math. Five, six years after that?
That’s part of what makes me see this as a really bad look.
“Install it deeper” isn’t rocket science, and it sounds like their first volunteer is willing.
They just want the extra data from leaving their first volunteer where they landed.
Human subject experiments are supposed to carry more long term obligation than this.
Seriously. My father was part of a Deep Brain Stimulation trial. Their follow up was for ten years, just for the trial. The implant itself lasted his entire life, which I’m not feeling like doing the math. Five, six years after that?